Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight !!jimmy18 said:We dress well because we have high self-respect and want to look good for OURSELVES, not others.
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.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight !!jimmy18 said:We dress well because we have high self-respect and want to look good for OURSELVES, not others.
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.
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.
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.
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.