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.
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.
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.
Since when was saying 'I'm attracted to you' a show of feelings?nismo-4 said:In English, No.
In Spanish, No.
In Russian, Nyet.
In German, Nein.
In French, Non.
In Ebonics, Hell naw!
In my language, F**K NO!
You're giving the girl the upper hand. You'd better have your sh*t together before doing this. It's better to show your feelings through your actions, and even then the wrong one can turn the girl off.
There never was a sure-fire way to get a girl unless you got good looks, you're famous/ high status, or you're rich. But there are sure-fire ways to lose a girl!
Case closed.
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.
I don't understand why you would need to say that to her.Rhino22 said:Say you get a girls number or whatever. Should you eventually just be forward and say, "I am attracted to you" ?
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.
I say you hit it on the head too with this one.DavenJuan said:BB hit it on the head..
in some cases, extreme direct can work, but its about HOW you say things, not what you say.
its not so much TELLING her that you are attracted to her, rather than helping her realize you are.
Master expressing yourself WITHOUT the use of words. IMO, this is VERY important. TELLING someone anything leaves out the interpretation, and simply put, boring.