picard
Master Don Juan
Has anyone lost interest in dating women because your job taking away all your energy? The job might demand too much of your time that you just lost interest all together.
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.
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.
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.
It is only frustrating if you make it frustrating. The game is not frustrating to me because once you learn to play it, then you will see that it is not frustrating at all. It is actually fun but you know what is not fun. When you have to deal with the side effects of when you are in an LTR that you get all these girls coming at you from all sides wanting your time. They will hit on you and try to validate themselves to you. It is sick. Just sick how many women per week try and validate themselves to me. I laugh at their attempts because of the fact that I am in an LTR. I once thought like you did that it was frustrating. How can women act like this? I always asked myself. I then realized after coming to this site that women have a different kind of logic and you must accept it and move on. otherwise it will eat you alive.Originally posted by Jamo
I kinda of really wish for this to happen to me. It would remove one hell of an extremely frustrating part of my life. I would kill to actually lose the interest itself for at least a year so I can put all this wasted energy into something that will build me up.
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.