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 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.
dont listen to this crap just man upAlle_Gory said:You need to get rid of those negative thoughts, that's whats causing your negativity. They can be a result of something someone has said to you, a negative idea that you found and you can't stop thinking about it, or maybe its frustration for whatever reason and you are manifesting it.
You need to clear your mind.
Sit down in a relatively comfortable and distraction-free place. Listen to your thoughts, pay attention to how you feel. How bad is it?
Now you need to turn it off. Meditation works.
Close your eyes, and focus on the sound of your heartbeat, breathing... anything. Your mind usually needs something to do, that's why you focus on something external. By doing this you are calming yourself, and training yourself to control your thoughts.
This is something you do regularly. 10-15min a day is good. If its really bad, do it more often.
Now you need to think positive. Look at the bright side of the situation whenever you can, and when its appropriate.
That doesn't even mean anything.DamHE said:dont listen to this crap just man up
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.
DamHE said:dont listen to this crap just man up