SeymourCake
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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.
Note the enraged homicidal (even genocidal?!) threats.You don't realize that by being who you are, you are disgracing the entire human race, ha, it's no wonder genocide happens. Enjoy life as an abject, hated feminazi ***** because karma is going to bite at your ankles very soon.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Looking for yourself?The Gambler said:I spent the whole evening looking at this. Damn you.
Haha!Zarky said:Rather than the government restricting assault rifles, it should have a mandatory one-question test before anyone can possess a firearm. "How many chicks have you f*cked in the past 2 years (not counting prostitutes)?" If the answer is zero, you can't have a gun.
Nope. My AFC ass is on Plenty of Fish. :crackup:Seriously? said:Looking for yourself?.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
This is absolutely true, especially on OKCupid. The only questions I answer are the ones where I want to disqualify girls. Since I only date easy chicks, I only answer the sex questions and some of the religious questions. This pulls me off the radar of really religious chicks as well as chicks who aren't interested in screwing quickly. That's so I don't waste my time with those types.Wilko said:Incidentally, this is why, once you have a basic profile, you should never answer the additional questions on any dating site.
However, the things this chick is crucifying them for betrays the type of far-left extremist attitude that I hate.BigSmooth said:The problem is not that they are "nice".
The problem is that they are just complete utter losers who lack the social skills, the interpersonal skills, and the manliness to succeed with women.
It's not about being "nice" or being a "jerk".
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.
LOL what an idiot.Well? Its true~ girls by nature are naturally bi-sexual, but it is a perversion of nature for guys to f3ck other guys. Now, I don't claim to be nice, but if I did, my stating of this simple TRUTH would NOT invalidate my claim.
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.