tryst type
Master Don Juan
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When a guy has to make fun of other guys in the presence of girls or is that also being playful?
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.
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.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
Let the Alpha and the wannabe-alphas butt heads with each other. While they're preoccupied with their battle of male superiority sarge any nearby women out from under them. It's usually very easy since most women don't enjoy Three Stooges-like gameplay.tryst type said:What if this guy who's so inclined to bash others to come off so superior gets offended when you make a remark back and demands an apology?
Happened to me and I was like give me a break, do I ever cry about it when you incessently make put downs? Worse yet, gf thinks I'm being too egotistical by not apologizing.
Suggestions?
tryst type said:What if this guy who's so inclined to bash others to come off so superior gets offended when you make a remark back and demands an apology?
Happened to me and I was like give me a break, do I ever cry about it when you incessently make put downs? Worse yet, gf thinks I'm being too egotistical by not apologizing.
Suggestions?
I just don't get it. There are women around, why are you focused on the guys?tryst type said:What's the best strategy? Laugh it off, agree, laugh, pay attention elsewhere or ignore?
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.
Lol. I think that's what happens when you finally don't care about competition from other guys. You don't see it, so you don't think about it, obviously.Francisco d'Anconia said:I just don't get it. There are women around, why are you focused on the guys?
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.
Small come back huh? So why did your girl back him up instead of you? What exactly did you say to him?tryst type said:So if I'm not supposed to react. Why does my gf think I'm egotistical for not apologizing to him? I said one small come back remark which I threw out in good humor and now the antagonist thinks I'm at fault where I never care to let his words affect me.
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.