"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
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.
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"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
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.
zekko
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I think the community suffers when it gets too bogged down in dogma, trying to come up with universal truths for everything, instead of retaining some built in flexibility. "All girls will always do B when confronted with C", that sort of thing is overstated and not helpful, IMO. What works for you might not work for me, and vice versa.
BetterCallSaul
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This right here. Seems like greater than 50% of the crap I read today is along the lines of "what should I text?" or "how do i reply to this facebook post?"GettinMyMindRight said:
Being tied up in so much online bulls#it isn't going to be healthy for any sort of long-term plans in life plus it demonstrates an inherent lack of critical thinking skills. Texting and general online crap has been addressed here before which is to say keep it at a bare minimum.