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.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
What about automated software?djSlvt said:Some of these are good: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=snipe+ebay
They're web services. I personally don't use any of those, when I snipe I do it manually. Plus I don't bid often on things that worth sniping for.
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.
You're an a$$ pirate?djSlvt said:Yay, it only helps that I'm a bad a55 pirate. Good find.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
True. But I can always change the password after.BacardiGuy said:I wouldn't trust over my password that has access to my CC info to some sketchy website or program, but that's me.
And he's a bad one at that :crackup:Teflon_Mcgee said:You're an a$$ pirate?
i got this now for my other thread.Francisco d'Anconia said:I use Auction Sentry.
Nahhh, there are some good aps out there. I'm not saying which because it's every man for himself when it comes to ebay.djSlvt said:Those are automated software, they're web applications. I don't know of any apps for Windows. Lags happen my man.