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.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
"Dominate the sh*t out of a girl through text" - LoL, and WTF does that even mean?!? Are you texting stuff like "Yeah, b*tch, I'm the man, now come over here and take this date!" :crackup:PHAT Rabbit said:First off...texting to setup a date doesn't make a guy look like a chicken. That's horse shlt nonsense. You can dominate the shlt out of a girl through text. I just think you have no idea what you're talking about with text or you just never had success with it so you scrapped the whole idea.
I'm not advocating talking on the phone any more than I advocate texting. Real talk, unless I'm setting up a date with a chick, I don't do either one - that's right, people, I don't call girls up just to chat with them, or ask them how their date was, etc. For the most part, I stay off the phone - calling/texting them all the time makes me look too available.PHAT Rabbit said:Next, you can't fvck a phone number. What I'm saying is that...the whole point of getting contact information is to meetup later. Don't try to act like you're going to somehow magically make a girl love you for calling her on the phone a couple times - that's retarded.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
ah yeah that's right, be busy.. she's just testing me to see if i'm still available to her.. need her to up the ante, ie act like she's lost me.Greasy Pig said:Just say: "I'm doing stuff with a friend. Not sure when I'll be done."
Her: "A GIRL friend?" Or "Which friend?"
You: "Lol, who is this? The Gestapo?"
Be mysterious, don't cave in.
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
do you think i messed it up by sending what i sent 'no i dont have a girlfriend'?ARrocket said:You really need to listen to this advice here - you're not going to get better this way.
My contribution: You're boring. You need to be fun.
HER: "it mean that your girl friend why you couldnt talk"
YOU: "no i don't have a girlfriend"
This is BORING. Try something like this:
"All 50 of them are here with me...But I'm getting rid of a few, because they suck at tennis"
Or ANYTHING. Remember: Take risks, don't care so much about the girl, and you WILL learn by doing. You will learn MUCH, MUCH more than you can learn from folks on this forum, no matter how many little green dots they have under their name.
i never took the calls though, is the fact that i responded with 'no i dont have a girlfriend.' enough to satisfy her massive ego?Atom Smasher said:What Harry said.
She was calling to reassure herself that you still like her, to feed her massive ego. Once that knowledge is gained, they can go back to treating you like crap again because their curiosity and need for attention are satisfied.
The ONLY way to discipline a woman is through removal of attention.
Aso, never, ever take what she says seriously. It's good to learn to "agree & amplify to show her you don't give a sh!t (and btw, you will also be showing yourself that you don't give a sh!t, cause you need to learn that).
Her: girlfriend comment
You: You know how it is, so many I've gotta beat 'em off with a stick...
You must always keep a women guessing. Don't think it's being cruel. They love it and it keeps them in their place, even if the verbally complain. What they say means zero.