Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Overthink things much? Get a life, bro.ducaro said:whats really does not settle with me is the fact that women on sosuave are rejoicing/congratulating and feeling happy for some GUY who got laid for the first time. There is something just wrong about this. I mean this is just the not the way of things. congratulating is a man's job...women don't get involved in all of this. Is sosuave resposnible for turning women in to 'man mentality?? I'm worried.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
no this does not require overthinking at all. Just simply thinking is enough.Master Bates said:Overthink things much? Get a life, bro.
Correction: You didn't get "laid" - you "layed" her!! Unless you are a female!T-Mack said:First time for me.. just thought I'd let everyone know![]()
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
You've got 56 seconds on me, man.MoneyManHolmes said:I remember my first time. The best minute of my life!!!
Please give us details.
would that be such a bad thing?Is sosuave resposnible for turning women in to 'man mentality??
Shut the f*ck up hater. He posted it because he felt like posting it. If you stopped hating you might actually eventually get laid too. And good job man T-Mack. But dude, could we get some details? Like how long did you know the girl and how did it happen? I'm just curious.John-467 said::crackup:
(rolling on the god damn floor)
So motafvcka what do you want a cookie?
Last Man Standing said:Correction: You didn't get "laid" - you "layed" her!! Unless you are a female!
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.