SeymourCake
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Is it best for me NOT to smile?
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.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
how is this a troll thread? i think it's a legitimate question.Scion said:I think the OP's a troll. He's made a bunch of ridiculous threads in the past few days
a new female fetish ... braces!SandHawk said:I thought initially that people would look really weird at me for having braces at my age, but it turns out, noone cares. And when it comes to girls, a lot of them confessed they were curious about making out with a guy with braces.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
Nope, I was 23 when I got my braces, and I'm currently 27. Nothing weird about it.SeymourCake said:Isn't it kind of weird for a 20 year old guy to get braces? I mean you would see them on younger people.
I don't think that's newkingsam said:a new female fetish ... braces!
get invisible braces if you're concerned about the lookSeymourCake said:Isn't it kind of weird for a 20 year old guy to get braces? I mean you would see them on younger people.