DrMetallica
Master Don Juan
What does this mean when a girl says "we're moving too fast"?
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.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
It means "I'm going to think up an arbitrary common reason in order to shock and confuse you and then enjoying watching you squirm as you bend to my will. If you agree to this, then I will be making the rules of the relationship and you will be my slave."Originally posted by DrMetallica
What does this mean when a girl says "we're moving too fast"?
Well we've done everything except for sex.Originally posted by Sasha
it means you didn't do your job. if you did, she would be screeming "fck me allready"!!
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.
Originally posted by DrMetallica
What does this mean when a girl says "we're moving too fast"?
You're coming off as being too clingy and needy. She's feeling too responsible for your happiness and is overwhelmed.Originally posted by DrMetallica
What does this mean when a girl says "we're moving too fast"?
read this thread, verifies exactly what wyldfire is sayingOriginally posted by Wyldfire
You're coming off as being too clingy and needy. She's feeling too responsible for your happiness and is overwhelmed.
You're giving too much attention and affection. She's already got her fill of intimacy for a bit. If you want to keep this relationship going then you will need to back off and keep yourself busy doing other things. Divide the time you spend with her in half and don't push for more closeness. That will push her away. If you pull away a little bit, in no time she'll react by wanting more intimacy with you.
It's ******** for "For the love of god man grow some balls, go and get your own life and fvck other chicks, at least give me some form of challenge to work with here."Originally posted by DrMetallica
What does this mean when a girl says "we're moving too fast"?
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.
You should have said that in your intial post. Anyway in that case your fine, your game is probably fine and like I touched on before its just your run of the mill chick speak.Originally posted by DrMetallica
She's just like in the car "you're the first guy I've been with in a long time (a year), and we're moving too fast physically".