"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.

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Preparing for "battle"...

The Comeback Kid

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This coming weekend, there's a pretty decent chance two girls I know (via family) will accept my invitation to a party at my friend's house, even though they live a little over an hour away. One girl, who does have a bf, can definitely make it. The other girl, who I kinda "like," is going to try to re-arrange her work schedule so she can make it (at first the party was going to be Friday night and she was ready to go, however she usually has work early Sunday morning). I think the girl I "like" could very possibly be interested in me - her family came by my house a couple weeks ago for their almost-annual visit, and after seeing "the new buff and confident TCK," she wants to hang out more, and told me to call her the next time there was a party by my place, which I did.

Now presuming they actually make it to the party, I will need your help. No no no, not in terms of making the close (although I'm not exactly perfect at that). Instead, I need a little help in dealing with my friends who will be there.

You see, at smaller parties like this where everyone more or less knows each other, my friends see a girl they like and try to sabotage all competition. I feel I'm pretty confident - people think I take steroids due to my two year transition from scrawny to very buff (I'm clean :up: ), I have a pretty decent internship, and I can get along well with most people - and none of this would get to me except there's just one piece of dirt all my friends know and won't shut up about...that I'm a virgin. :nervous:

The problem, if you add things together, is that atleast one of my friends is likely going to say something about this in front of the two girls. While some people think this makes a girl want to be "the one," I really do not like the hype. It's no big deal, there's no way I was getting girls in high school due to my looks and my confidence level with girls, and it just draws negative attention to me. To be honest, I do not think a girl likes knowing someone is a virgin.

So my question is, what do I do if one of my moronic friends tries to "sabotage" me and say something about my virginity? What's a good, witty reply, or way to go about it? I don't get mad often, and I don't believe in countering with negative jabs about the other person (i.e. two can't get a job b/c they have no work ethic, another one had to drop out of college for a year due to poor grades via a lack of studying, etc.) - the strongest argument is showing off your positives, not someone else's negatives. :)
 

"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.

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Prod

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Most people aren't that good at sex anyway, so you're not at a huge disadvantage.

DonS post is right on the money.
 
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