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.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
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?
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.
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."
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
Crowes should NEVER have been banned.Originally posted by DJDamage
Bump in Memory of Crowes22. That was a damn good article.
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.
I agree, thanks. Yea it's who you think it is.Originally posted by Wyldfire
Crowes should NEVER have been banned.
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.