"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.
Love Money
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"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.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
zekko
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Women like successful men, they like the top dog.
They like a man who can go out there and succeed.
If a man is successful, he's going to have money (materialistically speaking).
"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
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.
Drdeee
Banned
Woman that love a poor broke man are usually unkempt settlers that aren't good looking themselves and then find a man that is in their looks/talent bracket and go to work on them making them theirs.Kal_Luke said:
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
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.
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Victory Unlimited
Master Don Juan
Without warning------whip out your DYCK and whip out your DOLLARS at the same time...and whichever one she reaches for FIRST is the one she loves the MOST.:yes:
Just kidding...(or AM I?)
VU
PrettyBoyAJ
Master Don Juan
Atom Smasher
Master Don Juan
Dear VU,Victory Unlimited said:
Would you please PM me about coming over to the county jail to bail me out?
Thank you.
I usually warn them first...
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Atom Smasher
Master Don Juan
Expressed ambition will almost ALWAYS equal existing money in her mind. The hamster running furiously in her brain is desperately looking to rationalize being with you if there is initial attraction, and all you have to do is express ambition, display the potential to use that ambition (note that I'm not saying that you actually have to use that ambition), and she will be satisfied about the money issue.
As an aside, girls like you for the potential that they see in you. Not just financially, but in the social hierarchy that you will provide for her especially. Show leadership and ambition, and she will love you.
Upside
Senior Don Juan
Singles or hundos? This requires experimenting...Victory Unlimited said:
"I just moved here from Florida."
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.