"The Kiss of Death Mistake"

You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?

Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.

One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.

Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Proof that men are the problem

"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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Do you have an "theories" regarding the general population?

I do as a matter of fact. What's said between 2:14-2:42 here



Has, up until fairly recently anyways, been the archetypally "masculine" way of dealing with adversity. Whatever else may be wrong with JK, she's right on the money when she points out that being miserable is easy, and that being "happy" requires effort. Today though, entirety too many of us-Women AND Men alike-are choosing to indulge in self-depleting behaviors like hate watching The Acolyte or binging the latest season of Real Housewives Of Paducah, just so we can spend 11 hours each day griping over how f-cked up those folks are


Crap like that is easier to do than getting out of our chairs, putting on fresh clothes, leaving our homes, and walking three miles each day. Retreating into fantasy worlds on streaming is definitely easier, in the short term, than grabbing pen and paper, taking notes while listening to D. Burns's sage counsel here


Then making a conscious effort to practice what's prescribed on a daily basis

It's not shocking then that so many of us living in rich, Post-Industrial nations report being miserable, even though we're enjoying lives which are more privileged and cushy than those of all humans who've preceeded us
 

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Guys im so frustrated at my job because of the all female management. These women never worked a day on the floor but they are making our lives hell.

I work for Big Pharma and its like they are pushing for management to just hire women. I moved up to lower level management and its been a shyte show working with the all female management team.

They females want the men to resign and make the staff all female. That will be a huge mistake.

Ive been here for almost 1/2 a decade under the men and no issues. Now we get an all female upper management people are resigning etc.

To be fair one of the women is amazing. The others are very nasty.

The West is done man. Luckily my part time job is blue collar so I should be ok.
The workplace is a real problem. A video is a joke.

Sometimes I will watch video of a woman talking on a video if it will help me not to approach women at work, or play it near or close by them cause I dont need to talk to them and can watch videos instead. If women were not that difficult to talk to then of course I would not need to look at videos of women talking to me.

As of late that has not happened though. I am interacting with real women so I have stopped watching those type of videos, for now.
 
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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.

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I remember a few years ago ESPN baseball games started forcing a third commentator into the mix. The color commentators, usually former players, were already difficult to listen to, as they were mostly idiots. So of course they added another one.

Eventually they added a former softball player (woman) as the third commentator. I'm sure ESPN were proud of themselves for breaking boundaries, but the last thing I want to hear is a woman's advice on baseball.

When I was 8 years old, a little boy, our soccer team would scrimmage against a girls team that was several years older than us. We absolutely dominated them.
 
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