Chunkydo
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She was cheating on me. End of story.
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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.
A possible translation from "womanspeek" to intelligent English...Chunkydo said:I am a complicated girl and a free spirit, I can't be held back. Please understand that I am doing this for both of us. In time you will see that I was right about my decision. [/I][/B]
^ Jophil's woman-ese to english translation, FTW.jophil28 said:A possible translation from "womanspeek" to intelligent English...
"A complicated girl ", means something like this , " I have no coherent strucure in my personality,I am merely a disjointed collection of needs, desires, wants and acts. I am blown around by the wind of immediacy and I like the freedom to do as I want, whenever I want. By the way, I am seeing my old B/f at the office again, behind your back."
"...I am doing this for both of us ".. means this , " I had a pang of guilt about dumping you so, to delude myself into feeling better, I am going to lie to you. I want you to believe that I care about YOUR feelings but really I do not. You were fun and useful for a while, but no longer. BTW, I am sleeping with my old B/f again ".
"In time you will see that I was right about my decisison"....means ..." I want you to get over this quickly and I do not want you to ever make me feel bad about how I dumped you. I could care less about the damage I just did to you. This is all about me and my feelings.
OH, did I mention that by B/f and I are back together ?"
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.
Yep..horaholic said:You guys forgot the translation for "free spirited": I want to fvck whoever I want, whenever I want to, and "hor" and "slvt" are negative terms, and dont have a nice enough ring to them.
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.
jophil28 said:A possible translation from "womanspeek" to intelligent English...
"A complicated girl ", means something like this , " I have no coherent strucure in my personality,I am merely a disjointed collection of needs, desires, wants and acts. I am blown around by the wind of immediacy and I like the freedom to do as I want, whenever I want. By the way, I am seeing my old B/f at the office again, behind your back."
"...I am doing this for both of us ".. means this , " I had a pang of guilt about dumping you so, to delude myself into feeling better, I am going to lie to you. I want you to believe that I care about YOUR feelings but really I do not. You were fun and useful for a while, but no longer. BTW, I am sleeping with my old B/f again ".
"In time you will see that I was right about my decisison"....means ..." I want you to get over this quickly and I do not want you to ever make me feel bad about how I dumped you. I could care less about the damage I just did to you. This is all about me and my feelings.
OH, did I mention that by B/f and I are back together ?"