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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
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.