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.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
I'm a Christian and seeing a hooker is fundamentally against everything that I believe, when it settled into my system, after the fact, that I saw one. Even if you are not currently a Christian, there are many issues why this is a bad idea, especially if you are not used to casual sex. You are dealing with a stranger that you don't really know anything about, what she is into, and how many men she saw prior to seeing you. The only standards she would have is that you paid her enough money, and it's the same standard for other guys she met before you. You may not see this as gross right now, but trust me, 24 hours or so after the encounter, all of that will settle in when you think back and ask yourself what you just did and whether you can live with yourself or not, or get a panic, it really depends on the type of person you are. In my case, it led to shock of an experience of a demonic invasion the morning after the encounter with the escort.It is part of my eyebrow that is missing, not hair from my head. Some days it's more sparse and noticeable.
I am seriously considering seeing a hooker and am curious why it gave you a panic attack and why you would describe it as demonic?
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.
If your teeth are bad, you should do something about it. Would you rather live out your prime years with crooked teeth, or get them fixed in a year or two and be done with? You might be able to get invisalign too which is much easier than bracesI don't want to get braces or eye surgery. Apart from the eyebrow I think I look okay, some days I even feel pretty good about myself. But women don't feel good about me and I'm sort of clutching at straws as to why. One woman I asked suggested I should get braces if I wanted to be kissed and it got me thinking. I've messaged plenty of people on POF and Tinder who look like they would appreciate my time. Never get a date.
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.
Then you post this:I am not attractive. I have a baby face and a scar on my eyebrow where the hair is missing that makes me look asymmetric. As well as glasses and crooked teeth.
The women I pursue have all rejected me so far and I get the feeling they don't have to think very hard about saying "No". I've had comments like "there is no comparison between you and my boyfriend", "you are ugly", "there's something wrong with that guy's face"
I don't want to get braces or eye surgery. Apart from the eyebrow I think I look okay, some days I even feel pretty good about myself.
You're bytching about your looks, and then you're saying that your looks are okay when you get suggestions on how to fix it all.All seems a bit vain. There's nothing wrong with me that I wouldn't overlook in a woman.