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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
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
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.