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.
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.
Yep.Actually, we had a discussion about this in a behavioral management class, and according to my teacher, incest is not only a universal taboo, but it's arguably the ONLY universal taboo. So your reference that it's just "American culture" is inaccurate, it's actually the entire world...and not just that, it's possibly the only thing the world agrees on being bad, probably because it's counter-productive to evolution.
So, besides the fact that you will become an outcast of society, and likely disgusted by your own family, it's all good. Oh, and if you actually do become an item, you'll have deformed children. If you go for it and she shoots you down, you only lose the respect of your entire family, so hopefully she does say no.
No...I see nothing wrong with this scenario.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
me too.YoungSir4sho said:Real talk... I LMAO when u said when ur family was gettin ready to hold hands n she went runnin to hold ur hand. Den u said... i think dats IOI... LMAOOOOOO
Understandable...lol.YoungSir4sho said:Real talk... I LMAO when u said when ur family was gettin ready to hold hands n she went runnin to hold ur hand. Den u said... i think dats IOI... LMAOOOOOO
Let's just stay away from Roofies, ok?SamePendo said:Right.
If you want me to teach you how to lay her you tell me.
And you can change lay with "make love to her" or whatever you please, I can show you how. PM if you want to keep it secret.
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're a pretty sick guy if you really want to get with one of your family members. i dont care what kind of excuse you have, i know its ok in some societies, but this is not one of them. you should take a good look at yourself and maybe seek some kind of couseling cuz you really need it. its not normal for one to fall for their cousins... its just a line we instinctively do not cross, and for a person to do so, there must be some kind of psychological dysfunction.ReZin said:Yeah so I have thought about it some more and honestly I have no idea what I was thinking, it is pretty ****ing gross haha. Thanks for slapping some sense into me everyone.