drmeathead
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well said guru
She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
...that you know ofcomic_relief said:I have a very different attitude about girlfriends and male friends then a lot of guys on this website.
If they have been friends for a long period of time, then I don't care. The only thing that I usually ask is for them to allow me to meet to become friends.
My ex-gf hung out with four different girls and when she asked if she should stop, I said keep having friends.
My current girlfriend still hangs out with her ex-boyfriends and I don't give a sh!t.
The only difference is that I know everybody that both of them hung out with AND trust my girlfriend not to do anything stupid.
You need to know when to trust and not to trust. I have yet to be screwed over.
comic_relief
I've already addressed this issue from DAY 1. I said it's okay for her to hang out once in a while with her guy friends. Although I'd been feeling a little jealous if she went out with a guy friend, but I tried to hide it, feeling that it's just my insecurity. But this issue raised up about a month ago. This 2-year guy friend asked her out immediately the day after they went to cinema. When she told me about that, I said "2 days in a row? Doesn't he have a GF or somethin? I'm not feeling comfortable about this." Thankfully she could understand my objection. But the worst was when she's with him and didn't reply to my SMS for about 2 hours. Very untypical of her. When I confront her about that, she said that she put her phone on her bag so she didn't know there was a message. We had a fight about this because I thought that was a flaky answer. Why didn't she has the initiative to check her goddamn phone! I began thinking that it's because she's having so much fun with him that she forgot about me.guru1000 said:This should have been addressed from DAY 1. Now that you are addressing it after the fact makes you look weak and insecure. Like a little kid who works up the nerve to punch his bully. Either way if this is how you feel, it needs to be addressed. Remember because you are confronting it late, you will come off as insecure. However what matters is laying out the law on your terms and willing to walk away on hers. Better late than never.
HAHA!drmeathead said:...that you know of
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
Okay, I agree with you about trusting our GF's. But can you trust the guys?? You never know what intention they have and if they want to get your girl, certainly you don't want your girl to give them "false hope" by agreeing to hang out with them.comic_relief said:My current girlfriend still hangs out with her ex-boyfriends and I don't give a sh!t.
The only difference is that I know everybody that both of them hung out with AND trust my girlfriend not to do anything stupid.
You need to know when to trust and not to trust. I have yet to be screwed over.
yes, I do trust these guys. They both call me directly to hang out even if my girlfriend isn't there. The only guy that I don't trust won't talk to either of us because I told him that we were dating for three months when she didn't tell him at all for those three months because she didn't want to hurt him.Fela Kuti said:Okay, I agree with you about trusting our GF's. But can you trust the guys?? You never know what intention they have and if they want to get your girl, certainly you don't want your girl to give them "false hope" by agreeing to hang out with them.comic_relief said:My current girlfriend still hangs out with her ex-boyfriends and I don't give a sh!t.
The only difference is that I know everybody that both of them hung out with AND trust my girlfriend not to do anything stupid.
You need to know when to trust and not to trust. I have yet to be screwed over.
Most guys will want to fvck your girl and there's nothing you can do about it. GET OVER IT!!!! It's not about the guys anyway, either you're able to trust your girl or not. And who cares whether or not she has male friends, what matters is how well you can handle what she does with them.Fela Kuti said:Okay, I agree with you about trusting our GF's. But can you trust the guys?? You never know what intention they have and if they want to get your girl, certainly you don't want your girl to give them "false hope" by agreeing to hang out with them.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
what do you mean by "investing a reducing balance emotional quotient in her"?ducaro said:Ideally, out of respect your GF would not 'spend time' with another man. Since she is, you should continue and just be cool, but now you must start investing a reducing balance emotional quotient in her. Simple.
honestly i don't give a damn whether there are 1900 guys that want to **** her. but what i care is whether my gf give them a response or not. and by going out with them, that's considered responsive IMO.Francisco d'Anconia said:Most guys will want to fvck your girl and there's nothing you can do about it. GET OVER IT!!!! It's not about the guys anyway, either you're able to trust your girl or not. And who cares whether or not she has male friends, what matters is how well you can handle what she does with them.
OK, then you don't want your girl going out with guys. So what was all this fluff about this friend of hers that she's known for two years? He's a guy, she's going out with him and you don't like it; then deal with it. Stop making the situation more complex with the friend of two years thing if it truly doesn't matter to you.Fela Kuti said:honestly i don't give a damn whether there are 1900 guys that want to **** her. but what i care is whether my gf give them a response or not. and by going out with them, that's considered responsive IMO.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Fela Kuti said:I don't have a problem with her having a male friend, but the idea of seeing her hangs out frequently (about once every week or two weeks) with other guy seems to bother me. Little jealous, maybe. Probably nothing happens between them, but still. Actually I got mad when once she forgot to reply my SMS when she was with him.
strangely, i'll feel better.DonJuan11 said:If she cut it down to once every 3 weeks, would you be ok with it?
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.