"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Online personal Part 2

Komodo

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A while ago I saterted talking about online dating and personals and it started a major discussion.Some of us loved it some of us did not.In the end everyone had something to say about it.Have your thoughts changed since then.Do you have any new sites you would like to share?If so post them here.
 

"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.

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Francisco d'Anconia

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Originally posted by Komodo
A while ago I saterted talking about online dating and personals and it started a major discussion.Some of us loved it some of us did not.In the end everyone had something to say about it.Have your thoughts changed since then.Do you have any new sites you would like to share?If so post them here.
Search the forum for 'internet dating sites.' There's already a bunch of posts out there already.
 

Francisco d'Anconia

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Search the forum for 'internet dating sites.' There's already a bunch of posts out there already.
 
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