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.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Who cares?My fiance died during a home invasion where he disarmed the first gunman who shot two people when he came through the door. Fortunately, they weren't life threatening wounds. A second man came in the door and shot my fiance in the back 3 times, grabbed his accomplice and ran. My fiance SAVED THE LIVES of the 5 or 6 guys that were present when the gunmen came inside...and he gave his live to save them. My fiance is a HERO...I expect his memory to be honored, not trashed.
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.
May I ask what you need to do to be sentenced to 7 years in prison?I was married for 10 years, have 4 children, am divorced, was engaged to a man who did time but didn't marry him because he died. *ex-convict who did 7 freaking years and got shot after he was released*
I have chosen to be celibate since January 1st 2001. I did have a male best friend who lived in Seattle whom I loved very deeply. Sadly, he also died last month at only 32 years old.
Good values.I don't have sex outside of an exclusive relationship.
From http://dict.die.net/:Latinoman said:Good values.
... but you had your FOURTH child (while you were in your 30s) outside of wedlock...
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Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
Wyldfire said:I don't care what anyone says...I did NOT invite the personal attacks. I spent ten years allowing someone to treat me like sh*t and I promised myself when I left that I would NEVER allow anyone to treat me badly in any way and just sit back and take it. That's why I slap back harder than the person who started it. That's never going to change...
Geez! TEN years with an abusive jerk before having the guts to do something about it... We're really kicking a dead horse here but, I think by now you understand why you are not qualified to tell people what they should or should not do with their lives.I spent ten years allowing someone to treat me like sh*t
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
Um you're acting like she deserves some explanation. She's done wrong. He walks. When she asks why he says "because i want to."Wyldfire said:Regardless of whether or not she is physically cheating on you...she may as well be. She clearly is cheating on you emotionally with this guy.
If I were in your position I would just casually tell her that you have decided to start seeing other women because her friendship with this other guy is leaving you feeling unfulfilled in your relationship. Don't act jealous or demand she stop seeing him. Just tell her you are going to start seeing other women because she isn't fulfilling your needs anymore. If she wants your relationship to work she'll get rid of the male friend. If she refuses to get rid of the friend then move on.
Best advice anyone can give. Believe me I learned the hard way. I knew what my gut was telling me but my brain and my heart were telling me different.joekerr31 said:go with your gut and your intuition. sounds to me like you know how this situation is going to end. do a pre-emptive strike and move on.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.