"The Kiss of Death Mistake"

You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?

Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.

One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.

Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Learning to be alone

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I got dumped by a girl because I was too overattached.

In the end, I summarized many of my previous behaviours (even before meeting her) to find out if I did something wrong.

So, These are some interesting points I found out:
I relied on her to be in peace. Even further, my emotional stability depended of her. When I was with her everything was peace, but a little after I felt alone again.
When I was without her, I was desperate of finding someone. The desperation was in my face even when I tried to hide it.
I was always escaping myself with social networks.
When I'm with my friends, I was too concerned of what they think of me. Meanwhile some other friends do what they want and are accepted like that.

I have my friends, dads, a psychologist, a job, a career and enough money to buy things I like. But none of that ever made me feel in peace and secure about myself.

I had hope for a relationship to make me feel secure, and now even that fell down.
Yes, sure another woman will make me feel better. But not complete, I lost hope of feeling complete with a woman.


Now I'm using the breakup to find myself and get used to be alone. I think that will even make me deal with relationships way better like I do now.
We all say "You can't love someone if you don't love yourself" and "You need how to be alone to be with someone", but do we ever learn that? What about being really alone? Without even knowing if you will get chances with another woman. In the long run, yes, of course. But nobody guarantees you that next week or even next month you'll be with someone.
 

"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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LearningSlowly

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I'm glad this is an issue you're learning about. But if it makes you unhappy, you can always go out and meet new girls, it works great.
 

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LearningSlowly said:
I'm glad this is an issue you're learning about. But if it makes you unhappy, you can always go out and meet new girls, it works great.
I'm not referring to be alone in physical terms.
I'm saying you can have a good moment with a girl, in contrast to a LTR where you know you have a partner to talk and have a good time.

Between that, you will be alone. And you have to deal with it.
 

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Yeah I know. I'm just saying that loneliness can push you to get out of the house and go meet new people. You'll still have to be lonely sometimes, even during an LTR. My girlfriend and I are very independent, which makes our time together even better.
 
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