"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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Rewarding bad behavior?

justjosh47

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So I have been seeing this girl for a while , last year she was in England for a semester so we never got to date as much as I would have liked but I kept writing her , sending her letters and doing what ever it would take for her remember I giv
e a sh... about her . Well for the first few weeks of school it has been great between us until last week , she came down with the flue and she was an extreme bitc* to me for a while or at least was not reacting the way she had been . I think she was testing me , well we got in our first fight the other day over her flaking on me .... I told that I want tolerate childish behavior . everything seems to be going great the past few days after that though and today is her birthday , I was thinking about buying her flowers and giving her a card because I know not many people will and Is till have it bad for this chick , am I out of my mind ?
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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PhatE1vis

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It depends on why you're buying the flowers. Is it because you know she'll like them (DJ) or is it because you know no one else will and you're trying to buy her affection (AFC). Sounds like the latter to me.

I have no problem giving gifts when appropriate, but I always make sure it's something she's going to like. Flowers seem too run-of-the-mill cheesy romantic. Is there something she's interested in (hobby, food) that she would really like?
 

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You're seeing her and it's her birthday. Show some class. I agree, make a gesture. Flowers, whatever. It's her BIRTHDAY.
 

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justjosh47 said:
So I have been seeing this girl for a while , last year she was in England for a semester so we never got to date as much as I would have liked but I kept writing her , sending her letters and doing what ever it would take for her remember I giv
e a sh... about her . Well for the first few weeks of school it has been great between us until last week , she came down with the flue and she was an extreme bitc* to me for a while or at least was not reacting the way she had been . I think she was testing me , well we got in our first fight the other day over her flaking on me .... I told that I want tolerate childish behavior . everything seems to be going great the past few days after that though and today is her birthday , I was thinking about buying her flowers and giving her a card because I know not many people will and Is till have it bad for this chick , am I out of my mind ?

Hopefully you meant that you "WON'T tolerate childish behavior" not "WANT tolerate..."

I have very limited info here so it's difficult to tell you anything. You clearly have feelings for her. Don't put on a dog and pony show with cards and flowers. Read the DJ bible. Something obvious here that you haven't. It's required reading.

All I can say is don't be a fool and play the puppy dog.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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