"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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Relationship question: freezing her out vs talking about it

Fela Kuti

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Hi guys,

I've read so many times here that you guys recommend freezing gf out (a.k.a. giving cold shoulders) if she does something disrespectful. Now, from my experience, some girls tend to see it as sulking and that it's a childish behavior. I partly agree with them, especially if they don't know what their fault is. I mean, it's just silly, right? Some girls even counter by freezing out also so in the end, the problem is not resolved. So, does this strategy really work? Shouldn't we just state the problem and solve it together like adults?
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

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.

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Ease

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What happened?

Talking won't solve it, but girls see through a cold shoulder too easily.
 

Alex DeLarge

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Everytime I've given a girl the cold shoulder, it's because I don't want them around me anymore. Then they try to re-initiate contact where I just ignore them a few times, then they know something's up and become all paranoid saying things like "What did I do? I just want to talk with you". Then when they do this for a while just say something like "I don't know what you're talking about. I've just been really busy lately with work and other things going on sorry."

Really there's no point in letting a girl know what she did, because she'll think up every BS excuse under the sun to defend it most of the time. And you taking 5 minutes to listen to her spit out these excuses like a broken record player is not worth your time.
 
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