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.
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.
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.
Read it again then.amoka said:Similar thread has been posted. No need for double post. BTW, I don't know about you but my next resolution is not going to be for 2006 but rather for 2007
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.
Wow were do I start...PRMoon said:Almost two months into the year....discipline is the key
1) Going to the Gym every day at 7:00am, workin way hard
2) Still only drinking 3 times a week tops
3) Paid the IRS some back tax money and had them remove a lette from my credit report. Putting some money into a Roth IRA account (retirement's going to be a *****)
4) Trying out some new tequniques, lines, and locations (club season started feburary and I'm freshening up my connections) hard to tell if my game's gotten much better.
5) Prelude got sold from under me, ended up with the Celica GTS.
6) My room mate comes to the gym with me at 7:00am we train there now, the garage has been converted into a work shop.
7) Accepting calls from too much riff raff, blowing off shady people who ask or give me there number.
8) Still mainly eating fish, soy 3 times a week, vegetables 7, less milk, no red meat, no chicken, some lean turkey, no soda, low carb juice and V8.
9) Contacting some of the people who emailed and called me about my resume.
10) ...staying in vegas a few more months cause i got a promotion at my job...florida you're still on borrowed time. I'm comin for ya biatch!!
Capt.Jack Sparrow said:It was too eat a 12 by 12 from In n Out.. sorry for those of you who dont know what In n Out is its only in California and neveda.. but god damn it ended up kicked my arse
honestly though I dont remember what the resolution was I made because I was drunk
Livinlifehard said:IN AND OUT ****ING ROCKS!!! i moved from vegas and missed it every day, now i am back... i miss bojangles on the south east coast though.