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.
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.
Upload a picture to tinypic.com from your pc and paste the link heresoulforge said:how the f@cvk do i upload my pic on here
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.
you look like bruce campbell but with a different chinzinc4 said:http://postimg.org/image/3vix8olpx/
best one i could self take with smart phone...have lost a good bit of weight the past 2 months..maybe 15 pounds or so...and don't have any recent ones besides self taken ones...
spang said:you look like bruce campbell but with a different chin
And you are crying over you EX in the NC Thread?soulforge said:oh cheers mate
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European-DJ said:Okay then, lets get some critical feedback!
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The pictures are two months a part.
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Thanks Zinc!zinc4 said:good pics...you have no excuses not to at least be tearing up the online dating scene pumping and dumping left and right...that should be like playing duckhunt for you...you would definitely clean up in the nightclubs here in Taiwan...
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.
I'm diggin that flannel shirt brahArthy said:I'm the kid on right
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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.
Well you clearly don't need any feedback, I bet your cleaning it up.European-DJ said:Okay then, lets get some critical feedback!
http://i39.tinypic.com/14ucc1s.jpg
The pictures are two months a part.
http://i43.tinypic.com/2h3czkl.jpg
I hope that wasn't a sarcasm.Jair213 said:I'm diggin that flannel shirt brah
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.