Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

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.

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I'm an idiot (first post)

Doozer

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I'm a first time poster and found this site last Friday because of the two problems I'm facing. One being that I haven't asked her out not out of fear of rejection, but because I feel that things might get weird between us if she says no, and I don't want that. The other thing is that I don't drive; I take the public bus to and from school, and I don't know what I'd do if I did ask her out.

I'm a senior in high school who I just began talking to the girl this year. I've had her in a class last year and two years ago, but never talked to her and honestly never really had any interest in her. This year I have her in two classes and sit right next to her in my film class and two seats away in my government class so I talk to her everyday whether it's just small talk or have an actual conversation with her.

A little over a month ago we were given to choice to choose our own group and our teacher told us the day before to sit where we please the next day. I see the girl sitting across one of her friends and she calls me over to sit next to her and I do. That day we were given instruction to shoot a very short piece and we would edit the next day.

The next day comes along and I begin to edit. She wasn't there. She walks in late by then I was completely absorbed into what I was doing, and comes to the table greets me a puts her hand on my shoulder for a couple seconds and I just kind of reply with a "hey" without paying much attention. The days after we start talking less and less then got to the point where she wouldn't even greet me in the hallway and it was around that time that I realized I was starting to like her.

So by then I'm thinking to myself that I need to start talking to her again. I do so and although at the first day to two she still seemed to ignore me after that things started to go back to how they were before. We start talking more often and occasionally I'd find her on the way to class and just start talking about our day.

Last week on monday I was doing some research in my film class with a friend for a documentary we were supposed to do and we ask our teacher if we could stay in during third period. She tells us only if we get a note from our teacher, but we need to be back in two minutes because she needs to go to some meeting. We rush out and as I go to my class I see the girl, she says my name and then says "What a surprise" extends one of her arms to give me a hug which kind of caught me off guard. I was on rush and walk into her arm. I stop and hug her arm, awkwardly. Then she walks away and I'm just thinking to myself "Wow, you're an idiot." I know that a hug isn't a big deal, but the fact that I hugged her arm instead of her is...

Friday comes along and towards the end of my fifth period I'm telling my self that I'm going to ask her out because I see her everyday during passing period from fifth to sixth. I hadn't really been thinking straight the whole day because of her. the bell rings and I don't see her and I'm guessing that it being the last day before break; she probably isn't going to her last class.

After the final class ends and I walk out of the hall making my way towards the restroom. I hear someone yelling my name and it's her waving at me accompanied by one of her friends, I wave back and proceed to the restroom. As I walk there I'm thinking that I probably should have just walked towards her and talked to her.

What do I do? Is it possible that she has any interest in me?
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

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.

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War Against Betaism

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Not to be picky but you said you weren't afraid of rejection but afraid that if she does say no, it is going to be awkward. Those two things go hand in hand. I'm going to be like a lot of people and tell you that rejection isn't so bad but saying that alone won't help things. Reason why rejection seems so bad is because people put value into it. I know this one guy who asked out this girl, got rejected and acted like nothing happened. What happened afterwards? It was if is nothing had happened; the two were still friends and their relationship didn't skip a beat.

Plus I doubt she is just going to say "no", if anything she'll make up an excuse as to why she can't go out with you, like oh I'm just so busy, I won't have time, etc. So if you do reach this stage, which I doubt you will because she seems to like you, then the only way it is going to be awkward is if you treat it like IT IS awkward. If you treat it like it was no big deal, it is going to be no big deal.

And don't sweat it because you don't have a car. There was this one girl that I talked to that literally begged her friends to drive her to my house. There was another girl that did drive that I talked to but literally lived 30 minutes away, sometimes she picked me up, brought me to her area, and then dropped me back. Attraction isn't predicated on your ability to drive or not, unless it reflected on a negative behaviour trait, like you don't drive because you're lazy, etc. If women are going to lose interest in you because you don't drive, it is not because you don't drive, it is because you're lazy.

Well I'm already 19 and I know this should be applied to me as well...well, I just can't drive lol, being an immigrant kind of sucks.
 

Doozer

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Yeah, you're right about the rejection and how they do go hand in hand.

I guess what I just meant was that I didn't want things to get awkward afterwards, but you did bring up a good point and it's something that a friend also told me. Things shouldn't get awkward unless I make it awkward.
 
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