"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Lying about STD, dump?

QuadDeuces

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Would you dump a girl if you found out she lied about an STD?

My recent ex had Herpes and was too scared to tell me, it took her 10 jack and coke to confess this to me. She begged me to forgive me and not dump her, which I sort of did after a harsh monologue by me, because I understood there would always be the "why didn't you tell me before" issue. But I think that if she didn't had an outbreak she wouldn't have told me.
Anyway she dumped me a week later, but Im now regretting to not have ditched her right then. She basically lied to me after the std test and put my health at risk too.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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backbreaker

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lol yeah that's pretty much when you throw up the deuces. i mean if she will lie about that, what won't she lie about?
 

Bible_Belt

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At least she told you eventually. It sounds like she could have had sex with you and infected you, but she couldn't go through with it. You should consider yourself lucky and move on with your life.
 
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