Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
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.
I've noticed the same thing, but look at the bright side, it makes it easier to stand out and rise to the top.The other thing I have noticed is that MOST of the trades, doesn't seem to matter which, are all populated by fvck ups, losers, tards, sketchy drug addicts, alcoholics and ex-cons who can't show up for work or survive 10 minutes without a cigarette. Yet almost all of them will bow to a woman... wtf?
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.
Another ****ing reason to get the **** out of this ****hole. I was looking at some companies to cold email and stumbled up this one company when I was looking at their teamYep, considering leaving again.
Just don't act like a pvssy and you'll be fine. Learn to carry yourself in a way that doesn't make you look like prey.Its not all bad, everything seemed to work out in the end, I picked up a new apprenticeship in a related trade and a new job with an older kraut twice divorced. That other business was electrical and 5 guys doing tech work, the office of course was run by a bunch of chicks with attitude, they were all fat and opinionated. I can't believe women talk like that to TRADE guys and those guys bend over and take it... Just hope working with sh1t doesn't include women.
The other thing I have noticed is that MOST of the trades, doesn't seem to matter which, are all populated by fvck ups, losers, tards, sketchy drug addicts, alcoholics and ex-cons who can't show up for work or survive 10 minutes without a cigarette. Yet almost all of them will bow to a woman... wtf?