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.
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.
Hahahaha, Luveno that's hilarious man, and ALL TOO TRUE. Women's naievete is cute and alluring when they're 5'5 and 100 lbs. The naievete soon transforms into "stupidity" once she gets double-chins and her ass makes the couch cave in so much that you can't sit up straight without sliding into her.Originally posted by Luveno
Also, the element of challenge is killed once a man gets married. Since there is no legal way this man can be an adulterer, she gets fat like 60% of the people out there, and he has to sit there and LOVE ithe cow! Isn't that bestiality?
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.
That's priceless... good point. Anybody check out the Blog ("Mirror Of The Soul") from Pook's profile? Like Pook said, his tone may put people off, but damn, the dude backs up his point with some good evidence. I have no problem with the idea of love, but that little, tiny certificate of marriage.. that piece of paper can cause some nasty problems.Originally posted by sux2bu
LET'S SEE - I SHOULD GET MARRIED BECAUSE:
1) I CAN'T FAWK ANYONE BUT YOU FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE
AND..
2) IF WE SPLIT UP, YOU GET ALL MY STUFF!!
WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!
Oh, and It's not that married men live longer than single men. When your married it just SEEMS longer.
:woo:
I wonder if the power of corporation would protect you from divorce-related losses. (the logic being, you exist separately from your corporation--- it's like you are different entities. Your ex didn't marry your corporation, she married you, right? The idea is that you own nothing of value in your own name (every real asset you have (stuff like property, investments, and money) is owned by your corporation, and you just own worthless shyt like your toothbrush, toilet paper, the clothes on your back, etc.) and you fully control the corporation, so you have full use of anything owned by your corporation. (you live in your corporate-owned house/multiplex unit, drive your corporate-owned car, etc.) and no one else can touch your stuff since they are not part of the corporation. That means that your b!tch of an ex probably can't take your stuff.)Originally posted by belividere
Women do have all the power in a divorce, at least in the US. If you are an average guy making average money than you cannot afford a divorce. If you have kids you are ****ed even more. the "partnership" of marriage means that a woman can walk away with a good percentage of your belongings even if she hasn't worked to pay for any of them. Most of the smart guys making lots of money know better and manage to work around this, at least financially. The rights of fathers to see their own kids are still messed up in my opinion under the current system.
"If a young man gets married, starts a family, and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her, on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst."
"Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a woman's vagina."
"If praise is applied in the correct dosage a woman will never need to scold. Any man who is accustomed to a regular and conditional dosage of praise will interpret its absence as displeasure."
"Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy."
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.
Crowes should NEVER have been banned.Originally posted by DJDamage
Bump in Memory of Crowes22. That was a damn good article.
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.
I agree, thanks. Yea it's who you think it is.Originally posted by Wyldfire
Crowes should NEVER have been banned.
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.