"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Oxytocin
- Thread starter Climax
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"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"
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.
ER!C L!VE
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Giovanni Casanova
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Do not give your dates hillbilly heroin.
penkitten
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rofl
"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.
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
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Scrumtulescence
Master Don Juan
http://themarriagebed.com/printer/oxytocin.shtml
Anyone know if that Liquid Trust shyt is for real?