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.
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.
Wow. Maybe he's taking corticosteroids for some medical issue. The same thing happened to Jerry Lewis when he was taking them.taiyuu_otoko said:Speaking of land whales, WTF happened to Kissinger? When did he bloat up so much?
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.
HAHA! So true, Taiyuu.taiyuu_otoko said:The male equivalent of a girl getting fatter after she gets married would be a guying getting broker and broker.
"I don't understand it. He was making $350K a year when we got married. Now he's just TOTALLY let himself go. Now he just mows lawns in the neighborhood."
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.
Getting old automatically makes you out of shape? Weird, I'm 34 and still not fat. Do men magically get fat at 35 and women at 30?evan12 said:Yes, I noticed this trend and the reason women no longer marry in the prime of their youth, so you cant expect a 30 year old bride to be in shape and hot like before .
I am 44 and still in more than descent shape, it amazes me how many people believe that once they hit 30 it is an excuse to let themselves go, it is so ingrained into people's social conditioning.mrRuckus said:Getting old automatically makes you out of shape? Weird, I'm 34 and still not fat. Do men magically get fat at 35 and women at 30?