Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.

You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.

The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.

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Lost in Riyadh

Lost in Riyadh

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Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste.
Well I’ve not been around for that long, only almost half a century.
But through some article in a liberalist blog, a few weeks ago, I arrived to the Rationale Male. And then here.
You know the allegory of the cavern, from Plato?
Here I am now, blinded by the sun. Divorced, expat in Saudi Arabia, Beta, as a Beta could be, finaly I begin to understand the game. Ironically, in the worst place on earth to begin to learn and practice the game: You can get arrest just by driving in your car with a woman if you’re not married with her, there’s no club scene, day game can also get you in jail, scarcity mentality (the ratio men/women it’s clear on favor of women), they get 2 or 3 points more just for being here - like in that movie, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - so the competition is fierce: Loaded Arabs, wealthy expats, alpha males and jerks everywhere.
Defenitely not the best place to start, but at least, if I can make it there I can make it everywhere.
That was my introduction, I’ll keep you informed.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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marmel75

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Please allow me to introduce myself
Let me guess...

You just drank up all the Hennessee on my shelf?

Your name is Humpty?

Pronounced with an "Umpty"?

You like to rhyme...

You like your beats funky...

You're spunky...

You like your oatmeal lumpy...

But sometimes you get ridiculous because you'll eat up my crackers and my licorice?


I think I've got you all figured out broham...
 

Lost in Riyadh

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Let me guess...



I think I've got you all figured out broham...
You guess it wrong. And if you had any Hennessy in a shelf here, believe me I would take it.
Since you're so good at figure out people, I think I should take your advice with a grain of salt. Or maybe the whole package
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

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.

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I think I've got you all figured out broham...
You guess it wrong. And if you had any Hennessy in a shelf here, believe me I would take it.
Since you're so good at figure out people, I think I should take your advice with a grain of salt. Or maybe the whole package
 

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Welcome....

Anybody that likes the Stones I good of enough for me...

 

"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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Why don't you move to a place that you can legally talk to women?
I'm on it. Thanks to you guys I got some stamina and now have a plan and some action to do.
Meanwhile, we have compounds, and events at embassies, where we can socialize and start working at the game. I'm keeping myself busy here, and a long to do list.
And btw, English is not my native tongue, I'm from Europe, some expressions might not come up the way I intended
 

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Stop the circle jerk, I think we all got the reference.
 

marmel75

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You guess it wrong. And if you had any Hennessy in a shelf here, believe me I would take it.
Since you're so good at figure out people, I think I should take your advice with a grain of salt. Or maybe the whole package
Hey...just in case you missed it..

I'm the one who said "just grab 'em in the biscuits"...
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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Hey...just in case you missed it..

I'm the one who said "just grab 'em in the biscuits"...
LOLOLOLO I love this (unhappily) married guy who comes on here to live vicariously through the young bucks that he "advises"

never see his biatch ass in the mature forum or offering real advice

FAKE NEWS
 

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LOLOLOLO I love this (unhappily) married guy who comes on here to live vicariously through the young bucks that he "advises"

never see his biatch ass in the mature forum or offering real advice

FAKE NEWS
It's from a song dumbass...get a clue.
 

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It's from a song dumbass...get a clue.
I was referring to your overall contribution.....married boy.

You think I give a fvck about your "song reference".

Go back to your unhappy wife, boy
 

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I was referring to your overall contribution.....married boy.

You think I give a fvck about your "song reference".

Go back to your unhappy wife, boy
Lol...well somebody has their panties in a bunch. Might be your girlfriends on my floor...
 

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Might be your girlfriends on my floor.
Given that you're a married biatch huddled away in the corner of your wife's living room....I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT.

well somebody has their panties in a bunch.
Yeah good one....pretend that you know that the other person is being emotional and thus you "win".....YAWN

YOU ARE OLD AND FINISHED AND MARRIED AND DEAD, NOW **** OFF AND DONT DISTURB ME SOFT LAD
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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