Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
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.
not a guy, but i went through this before.Spearmint said:Now at this present time, with my mindset and how I feel, obviously I find it difficult to question a girl I have strong feelings for, so to the guys not experiencing that or even to those that have, how do I go about not getting the "she's the one" feeling and mindset? .
Yeah. The dark side, OP, is that she has you and three other guys by the balls with no intention of going out with you or shagging you. She's just an attention *****.backbreaker said:you know you have it bad when you start breaking up your posts in sub chapterssanytime i see bold "sub sections" of a post explaining the situtation i pretty much think she has him by the balls
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.
Blame shifting is very common in this instances.Spearmint said:"You couldn't care less about me, about seeing me and more to the point you do not even try. **** this and **** you"
Does that end things or was it to self pitying?
You can skip the expensive cars, the fancy clothes, and the endless gym selfies. Completely unnecessary.
I used to freeze the second a beautiful woman looked my way. Frustrated. Awkward. Watching other guys walk away with the girl while I stood there tongue-tied.
Then I discovered 22 simple rules that rewired my entire dating life. The anxiety vanished. Conversations flowed effortlessly. Women started chasing me for a change.
These rules trigger a woman's subconscious attraction switches. And you can start using them tonight.
Christ this is really similar. You bring back dark memories from my past mr. Spearmint!Spearmint said:That was me sending the message to her.
She merely replied, "uhh, okay then."
Mr. Suave said:If you want to cut her off completely then I mean, that's cool, you should do whatever you feel best doing.
Personally in my situation, we were good friends. In the end, for me, I got through it by making up as friends, but having little contact with her and finding other girls.
Being on good terms made it easier because the "I'm never going to see her again" thing got me down where we were friends, so knowing that she's still there to chat with if I wanted made it easier to disconnect. Whilst things were like this, I met this really really hot brunette girl and I went out with her. After a little while with the hot brunette girl, when the relationship had blossomed a bit, and me and the new girl were quite close, that was really when I felt better.
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.
Total BS. This is fanciful thinking due to your oneitis. She is damaged goods. We can see it from a mile away. It's as if you haven't read half the responses to your thread. Man up and stop sucking us in to this to justify your oneitis mess.Spearmint said:What defines her as low quality?
I'm certain that the majority here, if they met her would find her 'high quality' so to speak.
Read our answers. Come on, man. You are making your biggest mistake right now by not moving on. "Next" her. If you can't learn that skill and be motivated and encouraged by all the responses on this thread, you're destined to be a chump because of this woman. Move on, move on, move on!To all who have answered this post, what is it I need to take from this experience with her, in your own opinions, where did I go wrong?[/B]
perseverance said:Spearmint what defines a woman as high quality isn't just looks and appearance. It is how she behaves. Yeah, it's all well and good having a really hot looking woman on your arm, but if she acts like a skank, dresses like a skank, lies, cheats and tries to mess with your head than she is anything but high quality.
Have you ever watched 500 days of summer? If you want to see what a low quality woman is then you need look no further than Summer Finn. Yet most men would call her high quality because she doesn't act like a skank, but what she does do is mess with a man's head, play games with him and then goes off and marries someone else.
I know I am not a massive fan of this site or the advice given, but this site has for all its faults opened my eyes up to what a vast majority of women are really like and it is the best wake up call I've ever had.
One-itis cannot be helped, but what can be helped is whether or not you are willing to walk away from a girl that is low quality or is disrespecting you/messing with your head.
The girl I was talking about sent me identical messages haha, it's a lot like I'm speaking to myself in the past.Spearmint said:When I had her on the phone, I gave her the third degree, using bits of insight gleaned from everyone here and my own experience she got a short and sweet cold summary of her, which led to me receiving a message later detailing me as: "A horrible ****ing person" and then a few more messages later on that "she wants nothing to do with me" and she "has seen my true colours".
So how do I deal with the feelings of missing her now
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.