"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Lingering feelings

betablaster

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We broke up just about 2 months ago. ill try to keep this short but she took me for granted and disrespected me by pushing my boundaries. so it had to end. after about 2 weeks i caved and talked to her. we decided to remain friends and had breakup secks (BIG MISTAKE) (something really odd happend when we were having sex she started crying) it stir up all those emotions in me and after a few days i couldn't handle it and i told her "i cant be your friend, i care to much about you to be your friend, its one thing is you want to work on it but i cant do it" she said all we can do is be friends. i told her i respect her decision and started to say goodbye and she hung up on me(awesome more disrespect) then text me 10 mins later saying "thanks for being honest" and that's the last i never herd from her.

1 month sense the breakup she showed up at a bar i was at on purpose to rub her date in my face. sense then nothing from either side. (its now been 1 month of pure no contact) i never begged her back. and never cried or chased her or anything like that either.

i took the breakup really hard this was a girl i really cared for, i wanted to have a future with her and a family. and now its gone.(im okay with this now) i lost 20 pounds in a month. i went from 155 to 135. but now i'm rebuilding myself im going to gym 5 days a week. i got a new job, i got a new lexus. i picked up 2 new books mastery and the power of now. and i'm slowly feeling better and better every day. HOWEVER i cannot get her out of my head! that stupid saying that ab sense makes the heart grow fonder... UGH a part of me wants to get in contact with her VIA email and just say what i need to say to get it off my chest. Basicly goodbye. and im fighting myself from doing this. is it the inner AFC? or the beta in me who wants to contact her? it feels like there is a war going on inside me. is this normal? oneitis? why the hell do i still have feelings for her? i cant seem to shake them! Even while i'm trying to spinning plates.
 
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"She's Out of Your League"

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.

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Victory Unlimited

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Betablaster,


The amount of time and effort it takes to get over a woman is usually measured by the amount of EMOTIONAL investment that you have placed in the relationship.

In different circumstances and definitely with a different woman---emotional investment is not a bad thing. However, in the future, always be watchful of whenever the passion that a woman has for you starts to drop. And pay just as close attention to how her commitment towards keeping the relationship healthy starts to drop as well. A pretty good rule to live by is to always take note whenever a woman's words and actions towards you are in contrast. In scenarios like that---ALWAYS believe how she "acts" over what she "says".

Having said all that, the emotional withdrawal process that you're experiencing is normal. Over time, you'll feel less and less connected to her (you know, kinda like she feels about YOU already...).

But if you want to hasten your recovery, make a conscious effort to interrupt your pattern of thinking of her positive traits, and instead----start DWELLING ON HER NEGATIVE TRAITS constantly.

Whenever you're really INTO a woman and the relationship goes bad, one of the worst tricks that your mind plays on you is that most of the time that you spent with her were "the good ole days". However, when we stop and think about it rationally and OBJECTIVELY, we will quickly realize (and REMEMBER) that we are only yearning for "parts" of a past relationship----not the whole.

So one of the best ways to stop missing the good parts is to start meditating, dwelling on, and remembering the BAD PARTS too. Once you go through the stages of grieving over the death of that relationship, and you hit the stage of ANGER (or as I call it, "righteous indignation"), then you'll be able to do the SECOND best thing to get over that past girl-----which is, to GENUINELY open yourself up to the possibility of meeting a new girl---and hopefully a BETTER girl.


Much Respect to you.


V.U.
 

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It basically took me 10 years, 8 of it with no contact, 2 years of just phone contact. One day I just happened to notice that I had not thought of her at all for several days. Before, I thought of her scores of times per day. This separation was after 5 years of an affair.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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rearea

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"disrespected me by pushing my boundaries" equals "she didnt accept my selfish behavior and didnt tolerate being treated like ****"

Men disrespect me and push my boundaries all the time. There is no man who is respectful and genuinely cares for a woman. That is because men think women only exist for their selfish purposes and anything they do that isnt congruent with the man's agenda makes us women *****, ***** or a bad person in general.
 

betablaster

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rearea said:
"disrespected me by pushing my boundaries" equals "she didnt accept my selfish behavior and didnt tolerate being treated like ****"

Men disrespect me and push my boundaries all the time. There is no man who is respectful and genuinely cares for a woman. That is because men think women only exist for their selfish purposes and anything they do that isnt congruent with the man's agenda makes us women *****, ***** or a bad person in general.
Really? Why dont you take 10 mins to read my past posts about this relationship. Then come back and tell me how it really is.
 

Sik

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Betablaster,

Your feelings are normal, my friend. My first true love took me a long time to get over, and it's even harder when she's local. Best thing to do is be busy. Hit the gym even longer, read even more. See a few movies or paint your fireplace mantle - anything useful.

Stay productive and thoughts of this person will be further and further away as time goes on. Don't let this person occupy any space inside your head - you have much more important things to think about.

Also, don't respond to 'rearea', she, or he, is a troll. Don't feed trolls, otherwise they keep coming back.

Godspeed, man!
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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.

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plate's_empty

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Victory Unlimited said:
Betablaster,


The amount of time and effort it takes to get over a woman is usually measured by the amount of EMOTIONAL investment that you have placed in the relationship.

In different circumstances and definitely with a different woman---emotional investment is not a bad thing. However, in the future, always be watchful of whenever the passion that a woman has for you starts to drop. And pay just as close attention to how her commitment towards keeping the relationship healthy starts to drop as well. A pretty good rule to live by is to always take note whenever a woman's words and actions towards you are in contrast. In scenarios like that---ALWAYS believe how she "acts" over what she "says".

Having said all that, the emotional withdrawal process that you're experiencing is normal. Over time, you'll feel less and less connected to her (you know, kinda like she feels about YOU already...).

But if you want to hasten your recovery, make a conscious effort to interrupt your pattern of thinking of her positive traits, and instead----start DWELLING ON HER NEGATIVE TRAITS constantly.

Whenever you're really INTO a woman and the relationship goes bad, one of the worst tricks that your mind plays on you is that most of the time that you spent with her were "the good ole days". However, when we stop and think about it rationally and OBJECTIVELY, we will quickly realize (and REMEMBER) that we are only yearning for "parts" of a past relationship----not the whole.

So one of the best ways to stop missing the good parts is to start meditating, dwelling on, and remembering the BAD PARTS too. Once you go through the stages of grieving over the death of that relationship, and you hit the stage of ANGER (or as I call it, "righteous indignation"), then you'll be able to do the SECOND best thing to get over that past girl-----which is, to GENUINELY open yourself up to the possibility of meeting a new girl---and hopefully a BETTER girl.


Much Respect to you.


V.U.
Absolute gold. I, my friend, am going through the same ****. Hang in there.
 
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