Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight !!jimmy18 said:We dress well because we have high self-respect and want to look good for OURSELVES, not others.
You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?
Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.
One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.
Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight !!jimmy18 said:We dress well because we have high self-respect and want to look good for OURSELVES, not others.
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.
again stay on topic of no contact you keep changing topics. your talking about something different, but im going let it rest,Dreama said:Women in my experience would never do anything that puts them at the risk of rejection.
Just reject a woman and see what happens, they will go crazy.
I once rejected a woman, and she immediately pulled out her phone and started talking to her "imaginary" boyfriend. it was so funny.
Even if they remotely sense things are not going well , or she can't have you, their auto rejection will kick in and she will rationalize that YOU are not good enough for her. just so that she can be happy that SHE was the one rejecting you, not you rejecting her.
Only partially correct.jimmy18 said:We dress well because we have high self-respect and want to look good for OURSELVES, not others.
As usual. Danger nailed it. If you care about the other's perception, they are still your jailer.Danger said:Let's get this straight.
Going NC is NOT game playing. It is dropping someone out of your life who provides no value. You should not give two $hits what they think.
And I said before, women see it as you ignoring them and as an assault on their value. They don't see you as butthurt.
Remember, women are the top narcissists, everything is about THEM, not you. She will be focused first on "why is he ignoring me, I am young and beautiful and fabulous. Now he is making me feel terrible". Anything about YOU is an afterthought.
THIS is why such things are just another form of neg. Making her question herself. Most importantly though as others have pointed out, you DO care what others think, especially if you are responding because you don't want them to think badly of you.
Nailed it.Atom Smasher said:Only partially correct.
We dress well in order to convey self-respect to the world in order to garner respect from others. How we present ourselves visually is directly proportional to how others perceive us and in turn behave toward us, men and women alike.
This is why men of power and influence dress in ways that convey this self-perception. Naturally we don't live in a social vacuum and in order to influence those within our sphere we show them who we are and what we think about ourselves by how we present ourselves. In turn this perception we paint by our clothing and grooming elicits the behavior we desire from the people we deal with.
This is a basic tenet of game, of business, and of the art of power and influence.
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.
There is some great wisdom in this reply especially the bolded parts.Danger said:Let's get this straight.
Going NC is NOT game playing. It is dropping someone out of your life who provides no value. You should not give two $hits what they think.
And I said before, women see it as you ignoring them and as an assault on their value. They don't see you as butthurt.
Remember, women are the top narcissists, everything is about THEM, not you. She will be focused first on "why is he ignoring me, I am young and beautiful and fabulous. Now he is making me feel terrible". Anything about YOU is an afterthought.
THIS is why such things are just another form of neg. Making her question herself. Most importantly though as others have pointed out, you DO care what others think, especially if you are responding because you don't want them to think badly of you.
Lol.om1xr said:Guys you are missing a lot of great wisdom if you don't hang out with old people.