backbreaker
Master Don Juan
is it better to actually stay as a friend, or to move on completely?
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
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.
It's better to just move on completely. Every time you see her you're going to remember and that is going to hurt your game.Originally posted by backbreaker
is it better to actually stay as a friend, or to move on completely?
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
see i've been LJBF'ed on those terms also well not EXACTLY those terms, like we were "talking" and they said i wanna get to know you better first and be friends before anything happens IF anything happens.Originally posted by backbreaker
basically I got tired of this girl acting like she likes me, and asked her did she like me or not, said LJBF, and I told her if that was the case I have to move on, I don't have "friends" that are women that I want to have sex with, because you really can't be a real friend.
Wanted to know if you thought I went a little overboard, because she does.