"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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Is there any women who are not minipulative

Are there any unminipulative women

  • yes

    Votes: 11 68.8%
  • no

    Votes: 4 25.0%
  • I've never been laid so I dont know

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Total voters
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Mistic

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Even the "good ones" seem to be up to no good. They are just sneakier about it. Not to mention the fact that most women want to get pregnant. That alone fuels much manipulation.
 

"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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Warrior74

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dead ones and ones not yet born. my 6 year old daughter is manipulative. Every human being on earth is. So are you.
 

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Warrior74 said:
dead ones and ones not yet born. my 6 year old daughter is manipulative. Every human being on earth is. So are you.
With that premise, then, could there be any chance of having love or trust in a relationship?
 

ready123

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that's a pretty unbalanced view of people in general
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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Cry For Love

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skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage; "the early manipulative techniques of a three-year-old child

thats what manipulative means according to some dictinary. And women have to be manipulative in order to get men, they have to present themselves to men in such a way to manipulate the men to think that the girl is cute and display themselves in the best possible way. Its a biological necessity for finding mating partners, you could say.! so yes, they are all manipulative.

For men its a far less needed personality trait as they can just get straight to point of what they want for themselves in a more aggressive way without purposely trying to alter other people's minds, men can just do what they want without reducing their sexual attractiveness value
 
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