"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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so is this a good thing?

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well me, my gf, and some other guy were hanging out at a wrestling tournament, and one of my gfs friends comes over and starts talking to her. i'm sitting behind all three of them and while they're talking the other guy starts like poking her and being his stupid self in a funny way, and my gfs friend tell me that she would be jealous if she was me. she then asks me if i was jealous and i told her no that i didn't really care, so that ended up bothering my gf. well she told my friend that it bothered her that i didn't care but she never told me that, so did i do the right thing in saying that i didn't care or should i have showed that i did care or said that i did??

really it didn't bother me but i'm jw.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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yeah forget that last part about me not caring, but was it right to say that, i know she's worried now that i'm going to leave or something kind of because of that, and no i didn't say it make here scared i just thought that it would show that i'm not insecure or something, so was it the right thing to do or say?
 

War Against Betaism

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You should have cared a little bit. Being a little bit jealous isn't a bad thing. While it's a good thing to show you're not insecure, not caring at all kind of puts you in that "player" mold.
 
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