"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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"I like to be chased and wanted"

slaog

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This is what a girl said to me tonight via email. She was talking about her last date.

Girl talking about last date said:
:"the last fella made me do ALL the work, I like to be chased & wanted & told I'm cute or whatever, but he said absolutly **** all to me & never offered to take me out"
Now she seems to have a high opinion of herself which makes it even more puzzling.

Has she low self-esteem by needing somebody to tell her she's cute etc??

I don't know was she hinting at something like a date or what and if she was I'd like to get a few opinions on how to go about it as I usually play hard to get.

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"I just moved here from Florida."

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.

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Mavrick

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What a woman says she wants and what she actually wants aren't the same. If she chased the last guy, she'll chase the next. Soon as she's chased, she'll drop him. Always judge a woman by her action (past relationships and what she's typically been drawn to in them).

Don't believe the hype.
 

Warrior74

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Mavrick said:
What a woman says she wants and what she actually wants aren't the same. If she chased the last guy, she'll chase the next. Soon as she's chased, she'll drop him. Always judge a woman by her action (past relationships and what she's typically been drawn to in them).

Don't believe the hype.

lol. yup. don't jump thru the hoop of giving her what she SAYS she wants. If she says she wants a nice guy who will listen to every word she says and shares his emotions and will cry at lifetime movies with her....are you gonna start doing that or are you gonna keep on being you?

You know she will chase. this is what they call a 'test'.
 

Francisco d'Anconia

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So what makes her different from the majority of women out there? You're not going to find too many women who'll say that they don't enjoy being pursued.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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MotownMack

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I'm with Mavarick on this one.

And pay close attention to the fact that she says she "likes to chase and wanted"... she said nothing about whether or not she ends up with those guys who chase and want her, which is more than likely a big fat NO.

It's always a red flag when a girl brings up chasing at all, at least to me. That means she pays attention to it, and has some definite opinions on it. It's your job to find out what they are, and not by asking her. Watch how she responds, that's 1000 times more important.
 
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