Don't raise the bar too high. You don't have to be a millionaire. Sure, you should try, but you still live life one day at a time and shouldn't set yourself up for disappointment. Not everyone can be independently wealthy, and you probably don't really want to be (it takes away your drive). These days high status means being able to afford a nice home or to put away Gold and Silver. I'd say $125,000 per year is the minimum high status income, but if you have debt that's not much either. Having no debt and $50,000 savings is a good start.
Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single
She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
Proof that high status ain't everything
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.
Agree.
Women exist for sexual pleasure, entertainment and reproduction.
When a group of women was asked how they would keep a man loyal if they did not have a vagina.. their answers ranged from "Suck more c0ck", to "Take it up the ass more". No one said "be a better partner" or "be more loving" or anything related to personality.
So women basically define themselves as sex toys. All of them. The feminist drivel is a con job to manipulate weak and ignorant betas into becoming white knights for the benefit of women. This allows women to extract more resources from more men without having sex with them.
Wake up men.
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You're right about the feminist drivel. Regarding the defining themselves as sex toys, I can't help but wonder if they were saying that because that is what they thought men would respond to. Men are portrayed in a large part of the female world as being almost solely preoccupied with sex (at least when it comes to women). They may have been taught that is all men care about.
Regarding "high status", I don't think you have to be wealthy necessarily to have high status in the eyes of a female. Looks, charisma, talent, etc. could all make you high status if you leverage it correctly.
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By the way, I cringed hard when she told me why she fell in love with this other guy. She said that he had "such a good heart". I mean, I already knew that women are creative when it comes to pseudo-arguments, but that beats everything! Thank god I got other plates that are able to distract me from her.
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Wait, so the guy who doesn't WANT her has "such a good heart"? You had to hear this backwards bs?
"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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I mean, saying that she loves him "because he has such a good heart" is way easier than saying "I have profound insecurities and self-esteem issues, and I invest so much in pursuing unavailable men with the motive that if he finally comes arounds and commits, I have proof that I am worthy. Plus, I've invested so much and waited so long for him to come around that the thought of leaving without any payoff is almost unthinkable."
Female psychology at its best.
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So OP is using one experience to prove high status isn't everything.
What is high status?
Most people don't even know what it means.
"High status" ISN'T your job, it ISN'T how much money you earn and it ISN'T being physically attractive.
High status is a mental state, it's how you view the world and your relationship to it.
In this case, women are ONLY attracted to men they feel have a higher status than them.
However, having a higher status than a woman doesn't automatically mean that every woman in the world should find you attractive...that kind of thinking is stupid.
What is high status?
Most people don't even know what it means.
"High status" ISN'T your job, it ISN'T how much money you earn and it ISN'T being physically attractive.
High status is a mental state, it's how you view the world and your relationship to it.
In this case, women are ONLY attracted to men they feel have a higher status than them.
However, having a higher status than a woman doesn't automatically mean that every woman in the world should find you attractive...that kind of thinking is stupid.