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.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
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.
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.
This is true. If she catches you cheating she'll just cheat herself. The only time she MIGHT leave you for cheating is if she doesn't think you are worth keeping any way, and if you are not worth keeping, it's highly unlikely you will find anyone other than a really desperate or stupid women to go along with you.Yep. I think a lunch date or two every once in awhile is good for a married man.
Women almost never leave you for cheating.
agreedCheating just opens the door for more penalties during divorce, not to mention its a scumbag thing to do
Better to not get married in the first place
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
I agree with your recommendation that men should not get married. I don't endorse the cheating, however.All married men should have at least one side piece.
Wow. That's a really rotten experience. What you are saying is true, they always have options, and how can you really lead if a woman holds a trump card and can just dump you like that at any time, for any reason? Marriage is not worth the paper it is written on because people are unable to follow through on commitments because they are amoral reprobates.Yep! Men and women are different its not the same thing! I will always at the very least entertain options and be ready to bounce at any moment. I refuse to get the short end of the stick again. When my wife up and left me OUT OF THE BLUE and took my children, put me on child support, lied and said I was abusive didn't see my gottdamn children for months on end paying child support way after my daughter turned 18, mann fuuck that!!!
Women out here now days are treacherous.
A man would be a damn fool to think otherwise because women ALWAYS have options. Please believe it, unfortunately most men find out the hard way.
Imma be a playa for life!![]()
You DO realize that 100% commitment to ONE woman is a very, very, very new thing right?I agree with your recommendation that men should not get married. I don't endorse the cheating, however.
If men are supposed to be leaders, then they should be good leaders. They shouldn't half @ss it. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. So if you are going to lead, you should lead well. Part of this is leading by example, and role modeling appropriate behavior. Unless you have an open marriage, and expect your wife to screw around also. I know PUAs say "But men are different, we're built to spread our seed", but I call bullsh!t on that. Not that we aren't built to spread our seed. But for every man that cheats for sex, there is a woman who cheats for the attention. Whatever the rationale, the result is the same.
Men often look to the 1950s as an idyllic time, when women were subservient and men ruled the world. But this is one of the reasons women rebelled against that. Too many men abused their leadership position by having affairs, becoming addicted to alcohol, and battering their wives. Had the men led responsibly, perhaps we wouldn't be living in this feminist dominated world right now.
To me, 100% commitment would include more than just sexuality. And since marriage in our current society is a bad deal for men, I don't really believe in committing 100%. The nuclear family is a good thing (and would be worthy of 100% commitment), but unfortunately the current culture doesn't value the nuclear family, making it so that a man has to be more lucky than anything if he wants to succeed with one.Historically men always had side pieces and wh0res. Men also typically had multiple wives. The situation where a man commits 100% to one woman is extremely new.
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.