"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

If you really knew me..

Thread starter Naughty Ninja
Start date Oct 12, 2012

bigneil

Banned

Oct 13, 2012

When I was a kid my dad whipped me with a belt. I got over it.

How many of these whining women went anywhere in life? Sour grapes.

Remember: a "poor me" attitude is just inverted vanity.

Meanwhile, as incognito42 points out (and what my girl said 2 weeks ago) "Girls like *******s, guys who don't hang all over them... because women want to work for it."

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.