My girl a victim of rape, needs time?

"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.

piri

Don Juan

Sep 23, 2006

That baseball bat thing was just an expression. Of course he would talk to him first.
But don't let anyone walk over you. Don't take **** from nobody. Only wusses do that. But don't ever be a mindless violent beast. That's even worse. That's my opinion.
I'm not telling him to stay with her. I'm telling him to LJBF her and find another girl. Or others...

Anyway, just DON'T keep trying to be her boyfriend. Dump her. Like DJDamage says, she will drag you down with her miserable condition.

"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.