"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Is this woman screwed up?

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http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/men-stop-tricking-women-into-loveless-marriages/

I would never have married him if it hadn’t been for the fact that we had pre-marital sex. I’d suffered sexual abuse as a child and when I became born-again, I’d felt clean for the first time. Then one day we were alone (first mistake) and I wanted to test him (major, major mistake). I wanted so badly for him to be that romantic hero of the Harlequin novels who loved and respected his woman so much he would never have sex with her before marriage. I wanted him to stop himself, but of course, he didn’t. So I did the only thing I could think of to clean up my own mess and that was to marry him. Even as I prepared for marriage, I knew I didn’t really love him, but I ignored it and made myself go through with it. What a fool.
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However, I suppose that if sex is a test, then it's OK to fail. :woo:
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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Interesting blog.

I think a lot of women marry for similar reasons. Not necessarily because they are bad people, but because they dont know where else to turn and they feel like their number is up. My sister and her ex-husband married when she was 20 because they had a child out of wedlock. The family thought it was the "right thing to do". It wasnt.
 

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This seems useful in that it highlights how differently men and women think and how differently they approach their romantic relationships.

Many men tend to project their own thought process onto women and expect women to think and react like a man would.
 

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So the lesson is to beware of women who's friends/sisters are all getting married, right?
 

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This is a great exercise in ignoring what she says and watching what she does, as this woman makes no sense but decides to cheat on her husband and leave him and her family for gina tingles. That's the whole story period. The rest is long winded justifications and lunacy.
 

"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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