"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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Most of my friends are women...YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT??

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STR8UP said:
Some are, some aren't. No different than my guy friends. I don't have deep conversations with most of the guys I would consider friends, why should it have to be any different with the women?
If you don't have deep convos with them (male or females)...then they are not your friends.

They are just a bunch of hang out buddies.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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Latinoman said:
If you don't have deep convos with them (male or females)...then they are not your friends.

They are just a bunch of hang out buddies.
That hurts. According to your definition, I HAVE NO FRIENDS! lol

Seriously though, if you must have deep convo's with someone to call them your friend, well, I dunno about that.

People I know fit into one of three levels.

Level 1- Close friends. These are the people who I can really share things with. Only have a few of these.

Level 2- Friends. People who I see regularly who I enjoy being around. Most of the time we aren't sharing intimate details of each other lives, but these are people who have proven themselves worthy of my time and trust.

Level 3- Acquaintances. I have LOTS of these. Most people do. These are people who I see on occasion, are friendly with, but at the same time I don't make any special attempt to pursue a stronger social bond.

Where does "hang out buddy" fit into this?

I would bet that you have two different scales for men and women when it comes to friendship.
 

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Anybody remember ROY G. BIV?

In physics we learned this acronym to remember the color spectrum. You know red, orange, yellow, and green, blue, indigo, violet.

Are there only 7 colors in the universe?

ROY G. BIV is a gross oversimplification to help us grasp the infinite spectrum.

We have no way of knowing if any two human brains “see” the same color when looking at “red”.

I think we each see the “color” of a female friend differently. I can’t make you think its “blue” if you see it as “orange”. Because, for you, it really is “orange”.
 

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STR8UP said:
That hurts. According to your definition, I HAVE NO FRIENDS! lol
Holy sh*t, now I know on what kind of man the Mr. Big character is based on from Sex in the City. He is a total DJ, but....

Yes I watch the show, I have HBO on demand and I let the girls watch it. It's actually very funny and I crack on all the AFCs and some of the main characters.
 

"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.

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