"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

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.

Read more...

New study finds single women are happier than single men

zekko

Master Don Juan
Joined
Aug 6, 2009
Messages
16,777
Reaction score
9,990
In your case, this means being just as skeptical of the YouTube videos you watch as you are of this peer-reviewed study, instead of accepting one simply because you agree with it. Eventually, you have to examine things for yourself so you can come to your own conclusion.
I think both sides are a little correct, and a little wrong.
 

"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.

Read more...

BaronOfHair

Master Don Juan
Joined
Feb 14, 2024
Messages
5,543
Reaction score
3,017
Age
37
You're saying no man can be happily married unless they live in naive ignorance
Even ignorance has it perks, this is true... Slaves who gained a high degree of literacy in The US became far LESS satisfied than they were when unlettered, and men who discover that the world is far larger and more diverse than their neighborhood and village cease being content once they're aware of said fact
 

The Diver

Master Don Juan
Joined
Aug 25, 2017
Messages
574
Reaction score
610
I don't care what the research says; I think it's BS. In my real-life observations, when I go to a dance venue with my gf, all the single women who are sitting with other women or by themselves look depressed. ( And sometimes even the women sitting with a partner)
They can say whatever they want and whatever sounds good in the research, but when no one is looking, you can see the real answer.
I think a very, very small percentage of single women are not necessarily happy, but content with being by themselves after checking out of the dating market.
 

RangerMIke

Master Don Juan
Joined
Nov 23, 2014
Messages
4,763
Reaction score
7,979
Location
USA, Louisiana
If you want to be single, and are single then you are going to be happier. Not sure why this is a surprise.

I have a number of female friends who are married... at some level all of them are not happy for different reasons. In contrast, I have a number of female friends who are single and they seem to be fine. Women do a lot better at being able to meet their emotional needs with friends and pets than men.

Relationships are hard to maintain. Anyone that removes difficulty from their lives will be happier.
 

craider

Don Juan
Joined
Apr 23, 2026
Messages
89
Reaction score
22
Relationships are hard to maintain. Anyone that removes difficulty from their lives will be happier.
This is basically the philosophy of a lazy hedonist, which most women are, but which also fundamentally isn't a happier existence than one with any sort of meaning.

Tale as old as time.
 

"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.

Read more...

Slowhandluke

Master Don Juan
Joined
Mar 7, 2022
Messages
932
Reaction score
964
Age
51
So basically the study confirms "women dont need no man"? good i guess.. Have fun ladies.. Now if they can stop complaining about not being able to find a "good man" or being invisible when they are older.

Life gives people many tests. This seems to be one of them directed at women. You know the same type of test that told women "never settle, your king is just arround the corner". Or that waiting to have kids in your 40's isnt too bad. You'll be fine.

This is one seems to say, women you arent feeling depressed (oh women are the most medicated group in the world), you feel happy. Now to think of it, are those the meds doing all the talking? taking the surveys? Whatever...

the following is fact (not self reported. Why are women getting on meds more than in the past?)



oh, breaking news. A Harvard study has showed the happiest group of people are those that get high all the time.Those that dont get high arent as happy. :)
 
Last edited:

BaronOfHair

Master Don Juan
Joined
Feb 14, 2024
Messages
5,543
Reaction score
3,017
Age
37
Not long ago, Ross Douhat over at The NYT wailed:



"In the future, there will be only one 'ism'—Individualism—and its rule will never end. As for religion, it shall decline; as for marriage, it shall be postponed; as for ideologies, they shall be rejected; as for patriotism, it shall be abandoned; as for strangers, they shall be distrusted"

The individualism pundits were horrified over in The Early 10s went into something of a recession from '16-forward, with The Anglosphere at least being heavily divided between The Woke and The Red Pilled... Perhaps the rise of Single and Happier among both genders is the beginning of something approaching a revival of that individualism

Unless kids are in the picture, the case for being heavily tied down to one person is weaker than Hayden Panettiere's chances of appearing in the inevitable Heroes revival, in anything other than CGI
 
Top