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.
Her nose is her worst feature. It is not nicely shaped.Colossus said:Lol 7 guys, really??
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.
Yeah I agree, as well as the joker style thin lips, plus proportions of her face. All very very minor things though.Atom Smasher said:Her nose is her worst feature. It is not nicely shaped.
I can get a handful of those, I have short chubby fingers. Good enough for me!KarmaSutra said:You're not a woman if you don't have t!ts to fvck.
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.
This, lolWarrior74 said:As presented, I rate her Fvckable and Publicly Presentable.
Blows blondie out of the waterDemodulate said:the people rating her a 7.. lets see what you consider a 9 or 10..
Yep, 10+ in Butte, MT. She has all of her teeth.Rollo Tomassi said:NYC 8
L.A. 7.5
South Beach 6.5
Butte, Montana 10+
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.
Ok I'm gonna do a drive by here for a second only because this guy has done it to me about 50 Million times. A 7 huh? At best? Oh you have to be all bad azz, keep up that persona, and downgrade this girl huh? Why don't you post some pics of the girls you have been dating from that How To Be a Man book you are writing? Please? Coming from someone who looks like you, that is surprising. She is a very solid 8-8.5 and I can promise you 95% of the guys on here have not had anything close to her, including you. I would lay every dime I have that this girl would look at you and laugh and laugh if you tried to pick her up. You are not even in the same city block as her.KarmaSutra said:At best, a 7.
You're not a woman if you don't have t!ts to fvck.
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.