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.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
the person is 23 who wrote me and the dude is in his 40's who is the agentheadFirst said:Maybe it's revenge on her ex bf.. and he is the ex..
Mike32ct said:If you are having cyber sex (dirty instant message chat) with a "chick" and "she" sounds UNUSUALLY raunchy and graphic for a girl, it's a dude whacking off on the other end.
I've had that happen lol.
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.
1) Online you don't know if its a girl unless you see her face.Pardner said:Are you related to "The Donald"? He would be disappointed with the ignorance. You're making wrong assumptions here or trying to spin it your way for things you don't know.
1) If a girl is interested in you or thinks you're attractive she will give you her number to talk or text to you first to take it to the next level. she wont have to wait on emails and can talk when she wants. that is how it is usually done.
2) It was 4 emails. I wasn't interested in setting up a hang out in the emails. wanted to talk first to see if she was worth hanging out or not.
3) You make your own wrong assumption. I was on google looking up info for my report and just for the hell of it while I was on I googled the numbers.
4) It was one number that was bad. This person contacted me first. I just responded to the emails. This person gave me their number. I never asked for it. How you think that is desperate is beyond me. There wasn't anything to laugh at because they wasted their time with it.
5) Why go to the trouble of contacting someone and write to them and give a fake number. a waste of time
Tons of guys here have put up female profiles on dating sites. It would almost be a miracle NOT to run into one.sylvester the cat said:i've done it a couple of times. pretended to be a woman on pof. but only to see what kind of messages men send.
although i have responded to some guys. i couldn't resist.
Err... sorry about that.Mike32ct said:If you are having cyber sex (dirty instant message chat) with a "chick" and "she" sounds UNUSUALLY raunchy and graphic for a girl, it's a dude whacking off on the other end.
I've had that happen lol.
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.
Trump said:1) Online you don't know if its a girl unless you see her face.
2) That's up to you
3) It wasn't just for the hell of it, you were curious.
4) and 5) the person you talked to could have been the realtor to see if you phone.
Dude some people are bored and crazy online. What you think is a waste of time is fun and relaxing for them. They email you the number, they forget about you the next day.