"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.
Oxytocin
- Thread starter Climax
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"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
ER!C L!VE
Master Don Juan
Giovanni Casanova
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Do not give your dates hillbilly heroin.
penkitten
Master Don Juan
rofl
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.
Alpine
Master Don Juan
http://www.verolabs.com/relationships.php?UID=20061202224958151.205.97.27
I've known about it for approximately one year and I cannot say its knowledge has enhanced learning anything beyond emphasizing the power of kino, even in non-romantic contexts. It does, I think, put matters into a new perspective when you think about how touch affects you when someone touches you; it calms me down. I don't know what the article because it seems to have since gone down, but the peril of oxytocin is its effects wear off after about three or four years, if I remember correctly. Four years happens to be the magical number for most non-marital relationships to end and I don't think it's a coincidence.Alpine said:
Men release oxytocin in much smaller quantities, therefore we kick her out of our beds and tell her to go home.
backbreaker
Master Don Juan
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
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.
Scrumtulescence
Master Don Juan
http://themarriagebed.com/printer/oxytocin.shtml
Anyone know if that Liquid Trust shyt is for real?