"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

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.

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I only seem to get so far...I've got a glass ceiling!

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Normally, I notice when I talk to a girl, she may start flirting with me and all, complete with touching, but I get rejected the moment I make a move, and the flirting comes to a screeching halt. I nowadays don't speak to a lot of girls cuz things go as I expect (even though the result is bad), meaning that:

1. I'll get turned down
2. Freeze up and walk off
3. Kill the conversation myself if it gets too awkward
5. Somehow manage to end up getting physical only to have the girl toss me aside like a smelly gym sock a day later.

Sure I get kudos for trying, but I only seem to make it easier for the next person to win the girl over. :cry:

I know I'm not a superstar right now (and I don't wanna wait for my future fame to get women), but I try what I can to understand women...seems to fail. I wonder to myself if I'm even MEANT to get an attractive woman. often times I get TOLD to talk to an attractive girl, :nervous: but I end up saying something like "I bet ya 500 dollars she got a boyfriend! She wouldn't find me interesting! What could she see in a chucklehead like me?" or "To get rejected and ridiculed in front of everybody? Hell no! If I wanted to make a comedy, I'd call NBC Executives! Often times, I spare the embarrassment by having someone else make a move and I just pray that they lose so I have a better chance of winning. It ain't much, but...

It seems I can't get past being friends even though I kino and keep my hygeine up! Any suggestions?
 

"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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When you expect rejection, that's exactly what you get. Try caring less.
 

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That's a very good answer. You sound almost exactly like I used to be nismo, and when you worry about it too much, your timing is off and you inevitably make mistakes. I still relapse into that on occasion.

Think about all the times that you've been successful with a woman - it was easy right? It all came easy, didn't it? It literally is like getting comfortable riding a bike or learning to ski right off the bat. I still screw up from time to time. Fairly often actually. That's mostly because of lack of practice on my part. But there's no substitute for truly not giving a ****. Frame is so important in everything you do.
 

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Powerful stuff, Beyond afc. 'Preciate that much! No wonder how come I was f**kin' up like I was...I was making the most unusual mistakes! Thanks again, guys!
 
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