"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

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.

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I have Mommy issues?

Warrior74

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So I had a female "friend" tell me that I had mommy issues because I didn't want to date her friend. I didn't want to date her friend because she physically reminded me of my mother. I mean she looked like a younger version of my mother. Now that's not bad thing, my mom is a wonderful woman and not unattractive. I just find it weird to date a woman who looks like my mother. Is that not normal?
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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This is interesting I can't even date a woman with the same first name as my mother because it weirds me out, let alone one who looks like her!

Your friend was just annoyed you rejected her friend.
 

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Nothing wrong with that. I think you did the right thing.
 

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tryst type said:
Your friend was just annoyed you rejected her friend.
Yep.

Any kind of sweeping statement like that is really just a shaming tool/device.

They hope you'll 'prove' them wrong by doing what they 'want' you do to.

Don't read anything into it, I'm sure she didn't put very much thought into it.

The hardest thing for most humans to do is say something like this:

"Even though your opinion is different than I'd like it to be, and even though I disagree with it, I respect it as your opinion and we'll just leave it at that."

It's much easier to say:

"You're Wrong! You are wrong because of X!"

Where X is the first simple to understand idea that pops into their head.
 
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