"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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I'm in the wrong, but I feel like just walking away and nexting her.

baurman

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My girlfriend of 9 months, everything was great up until ending of May I got fired from my job, and I didn't tell her. and when she called me in the morning for the next week, I'd lie to her and say "yeah i'm driving to work.." the reason I didn't tell her I got fired was because I was ashamed and she is one of them high class type girls where college education matters and all that sh!t, she was already giving me crap for not having a degree. so basically yeah I lied to her that I was still working until this past Friday she was txting me sh!t like "I miss you and I really wanna see you, can I stop by for a kiss at your job?" and I was like "no im busy" but she wouldn't take no for an answer and I was thinking to myself, damn she's gonna find out so i'll just tell her go there and ask for me. So I told her "Come see me then and ask for me" so when she went there, she called me but I ignored her calls.... this was around 2pm... I ignored her until I finally called her at 7pm and she was driving to her friends house and crying saying she feels like a Fool and she's hurt and saying I was living a Double Life. So she went to her girlfriends house for company and she was telling her bullshyt like "Don't let him off the hook so easy.... Don't even see him, don't talk to him" cause I tried calling her and her friend answered and she was bytchin at me saying I'm a fvcking assh0le. So now I dunno what to do. My GF is talking to me now, I told her I was sorry.... but I don't know why I feel hurt, like i don't think it's even a big deal, but she's making it out to be like I cheated on her and shyt. She keeps playing these games like "I need to think about my priority's and see if I really want to stay with you because I'll never be able to trust you, you broke my trust and it'll be a long time until you build it up again" -- when she tells me sh!t like that, I just want to fvcking be like fvck that, I'll start fresh with another girl.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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trajhenkhet02

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Ouch. Well you have established that you are not cheating. Have you been still holding it down financially? I would give her space and go out do some fun things. Why make a big deal about a logistics issue? Yes you #$*^ed up, but it's not that big of an issue. And if she wants to listen to her most likely single friend on this I say let her go. You have to come clean with what happened and why if you haven't done that already. In the future I recommend no lying under any circumstance. If someone doesn't accept you for who you are let the chips fall where they may. You don't want to live life on eggshells do you?
 

BlackJackal

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too many women in the world for this man. tell her to grow up.
 
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