playing TOO hard to get?

"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.

Just a Shot Away

Master Don Juan

Apr 18, 2010

zekko said:
Most of this DJ stuff can be boiled down to "just put yourself out there - if there's interest, go for it, if not, next."

What does that mean, exactly; "put yourself out there"?

And how can you tell if she's interested that quickly? I mean, there's so many girls out there that are just friendly and smile a lot so you can't just go by the standard IOI's. And then there's all the girls who deliberately feign IOI's just to screw with you, and hopefully ask them out so they can reject you for the +1 ego boost.

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

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.