Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
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.
Sometimes it is puzzling why a few rich businessmen are liberals. I think it's "wealth guilt" to coin a term. They think they need to be on the liberal side to compensate for being the "big bad rich guy." Whatever floats their boat.speed dawg said:Hey, I'll give them one thing.....they stand firm to their ideology, even if it means less profits. They believe in what they are doing.
To see a guy who built a company like Costco as a liberal is sort of surprising to me. The party that was built on jealousy.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Very insightful. Agreed.Danger said:PC is definitely one reason.....but if you look at the leftist ideology, it makes it very difficult to rise to the top when you are getting bled to death.
Now, put yourself at the top of the position with a lot of rich business and elites.....they already reached the top. How do they stay there? Making it hard for anyone else to climb afterwards in their footsteps.
That's an apt explanation. Is there anything more hypocritical or more loathsome than a wealthy and powerful white male who espouses the liberal agenda, like say a US senator, talk show host or CEO ? They're willing to throw everyone else that fits their identity under the bus with their support of things like affirmative action, but they hold to their position of power and wealth themselves. Then most reprehensible and hypocritical, they smugly claim the moral high ground for "supporting disadvantaged" women and non-whiteys.Danger said:Now, put yourself at the top of the position with a lot of rich business and elites.....they already reached the top. How do they stay there? Making it hard for anyone else to climb afterwards in their footsteps.
Can't really say it any better than this.Stagger Lee said:That's an apt explanation. Is there anything more hypocritical or more loathsome than a wealthy and powerful white male who espouses the liberal agenda, like say a US senator, talk show host or CEO ? They're willing to throw everyone else that fits their identity under the bus with their support of things like affirmative action, but they hold to their position of power and wealth themselves. Then most reprehensible and hypocritical, they smugly claim the moral high ground for "supporting disadvantaged" women and non-whiteys.
All liberals play the "privileged white male" and apex fallacy card, and it's hypocritical when women Senators and non-whitey President does it, but extra hypocritical when say Harry Reid, Joe Biden or Warren Buffet does it.
F*ck yes.noobolgy said:Would you guys say the European Union and/ or the u.k. is very liberal in their ideologies?
Yes, absolutely.noobolgy said:Would you guys say the European Union and/ or the u.k. is very liberal in their ideologies?
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.
speed dawg said:F*ck yes.
Then they are slaves. Or its basically a cast system, complete with hypergamy on steroids.Mike32ct said:Yes, absolutely.