Lost Interest?

"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.

azanon

Master Don Juan

Sep 24, 2007

1.5 years and she's still just a girlfriend? 1.5 yrs is a lot of test driving! Sounds like your time ran out. Most women have an undisclosed amount of time for you to give them that metallic circular band; well, except for the ones with low self-esteem/few other options. Some will wait twice that, or three times that, but not all of them.

Hey, don't misunderstand me here. If she wasn't marriage material, I'm certainly not suggesting you marry her anyway. I'm just saying don't think its realistic to keep a girlfriend indefinitey if, for no other reason, because........... it isn't realistic.

"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.