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.
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.
" To travel and connect with strangers .."iqqi said:
Thanks! As the resident AW of sosuave, I LOVE it when you old "mature" guys choose to "parody" my contributions to a thread, rather than just contribute yourselves! Thanks a bunch, my AW quota has almost been met today, already! WOO HA.jophil28 said:
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.
jophil28 said:
That is because you secretly are in love with me, and my highly ambitious resolutions made you worry that I might be out of your league. So you had to "knock me down a few pegs" in your mind, to make yourself feel better. Which gets you nowhere, and is not healthy!!! Look Keto, you just aren't my type. How bout YOU make a resolution to stop thread stalking me? :yes:ketostix said:That's how I read iqqi's New Year's resolutions jophil. I read her resolutions as, "I want to hook it up with and use strangers so no one will know I'm being slutty, and I want to AW and branch swing and won't settle for any one guy unless he's way out of my legue."
What is a CBR?Rhoto said: