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.
They are! Go to Manila... That's where a lot of modernized hot Pinays live! If you go off to the smaller areas, that's where the girls are more conservative and less modernized.Michele said:
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
... I am full english myself, there aren't too many hot girls around my area :l... they kind of remind me of quasimodo (hunchback of notre damme) in some cases *shivers*...SweetTooth said:
The ****. She's a little thicker, not bad.SweetTooth said:
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
She's about average height for our age... she wouldn't mind me showing off the picture she seems happy enough to show herself off all over the net... (no she doesn't do porno) she has put plenty of pics up on the internet especially all them piczos and whatever...kegger said:
no. everyone here has a generous rating scale.The Shocker said:
True... I must admit, I think I'm STILL partially that way. Recently my scale for attractiveness has had an upgrade, a 10 has turned into an 8.5, a 6 has gone to a 4, and a 7 has gone down to a 6. From now on I've also adopted the mindset that NO girl is a 10.Michele said:
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.
Michele said:
Eye of the beholder, mate.
Good word of wisdom there bud, but I have to disagree...BluEyes said:
This is a bit extreme first off all. how many out of you thousands of looks-only-matters guys wouldn't hit if everything was perfect but her nose was slightly off?
Men are already judged harshly, especially by girls who are seen as more attractive. Just think, if you walk the wrong way.... Having a high rating scale doesn't mean we treat any girl less than a 7 like dirt, (like they will do us) it's a way of making sure you're fully satisfied with what you get. Honestly to me it sounds like your saying one should settle for a low quality girl and call her classy than put in more work for a girl worth having. And to be honest that seems completely contradictory to your idea of getting a "true girlfriend", unless you have a very BAD definition of a "true" girlfriend.
If you don't get a quality girl you won't be having very many 'good times'. Pook said it best:
Having standards means a bit more work, yeah, but a better pay-off when the check finally comes in.Pook said:
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.
Haha, but now it's not do YOUR looks matter, it's about the girl.Eternal said:
Touchout said:
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.