She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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.
Warrior74 said:
America has already convicted him in the media. They are already comparing him to OJ.Rescue Mission said:So some random 16 year old bytch decided to try to become rich by using a fake rape charge? What else is new??
Morons in the media need to stop accusing men of crimes just because some lying bytch decides to open her mouth in hopes of getting some $$.
Warrior74 said:America has already convicted him in the media. They are already comparing him to OJ.
Rescue Mission said:So some random 16 year old bytch decided to try to become rich by using a fake rape charge? What else is new??
Morons in the media need to stop accusing men of crimes just because some lying bytch decides to open her mouth in hopes of getting some $$.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
I have to agree here, looks like a typical BS "statutory rape" case where there's really no rape involved at all.Rescue Mission said:If he did have sex with her, its not really RAPE rape, its just sex with a "minor", but obviously this h0e knew exactly what she was doing.....its not the same as raping a child who doesn't know what sex is or how it works.
Now, Lawrence Taylor is going to be RAPED by the unfair American pvssified pro-women anti-men law system.
Furyguy said:The way I read this, basically
1) LT contacts a pimp looking for a good time
2) Pimp brings this 16-year-old ***** over for a night of fun, the bill is $3000. **** goes down as usual, until...
3) Pimp recognizes LT as NFL hall of famer, tries to formulate some plan to extort money, but someone ****s up and the authorities are called into play.
No one got raped in the traditional sense of the word, but in one of the multiple legal definitions of rape, he committed "rape" by sleeping with a girl younger than 17. She and her man come out with $3000, her man gets arrested, LT gets arrested, and she is the victim. Not a bad break.
It's a shame such a great guy can't keep his **** together, though.
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.