Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
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.
Because she's a woman.ssj4halo said:Why do you say she will dump me??
Good, thats why I said just try to hit it asap before she dumps you.ssj4halo said:I don't care if she does...I thought I was doing a pretty good job so far :[
Keep your head up, man. Don't have such a defeatist attitude.ssj4halo said:Oh well. I guess I won't lose my virginity before 21![]()
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.
Trust me. You dossj4halo said:hmmm interesting. I dont have one-itus for her I think.
That proves it right there.Another problem is I feel really empty(today morning). Like something is missing inside me. I don't want to admit its cause I like her. Everything seems so dull and I cant stop thinking about her...Goddamit. I haven't felt like this since high school(three years ago). This bittersweet feeling. I kinda miss it.
In here you are freaking about because she hasn't texted you in 4 minutes.She texts me around 11:30 pm. We were txting each other since then. I was gonna go to sleep and said when we meetin up again? She said she is free on the weekends. I replied that we can study at my place or hers and take breaks and talk. Im guessing its a bad move because its been about 4 minutes and she hasn't replied back. What should I do???
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
Dude I see my GF once a week and you know what? I'M HAPPY WITH THAT! You aren't married or something... you barely know each other, the less you see each other the more you will apreciate the times you dossj4halo said:This HB7 is really annoyin me. She has work and school all the time and only end up hanging out once a week. What should I tell her so she can make at least an hour or two here and there around her busy schedule?
Stop chasing the fvck close and have some fun dude... :crazy: What are you thinking?!edit: we were texting just now and i ended up telling ehr straight up. I dont understand why its so hard to spend an hour here n there. We both are really busy but IM sure we can still meet up for a bit and chat and do something big over the weekend. etc.
Now you made her use the Attention wh*re **** tests...She was acting like this because she didnt want me to wait for her or some ****. I told her I am not gonna be waiting around and told her that just call me up if u get out of work and if I am busy o well, if not we can meet up. etc.
She's lieing... She doesn't find it okay, she finds it very lame! And now she's probebly pissed at you for acting so silly.she said okay at the end.
sorry mate, you didn'tI think I solved it the alpha way. who knows..
The good news by the way is she called you, so she's probebly still intrested so you can still win this girl over.Stop chasing the fvck close and have some fun dude... What are you thinking?!
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.