"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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Some Interesting Numbers re: High School Sweethearts

Desdinova

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I figured I'd look up some statistics on marriages between high school sweethearts. This is all I came up with:

http://brandongaille.com/20-high-school-sweethearts-marriage-statistics/

If you read the article, be sure to filter out the blue pill bull5hit :D

Here's a couple of interesting things:

  • High school sweethearts that wait until at least the age of 25 to get married have a 10 year success rate of 78%
  • According to some research, couples who meet in school are less likely to divorce than couples who met in any other setting.
  • People who break up with their high school sweetheart and marry someone else are more likely to have an affair with the their sweetheart if they are able to reconnect.
This really backs up the idea of getting your woman while she's young and low-mileage. They tend to stick better than a "mature" woman who's ready to slam into the wall.
 

"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.

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Huffman

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Well............. sucks for us in this 25+ forum!
 

Colossus

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I got my wife @ 25 as a virgin. About as close to a HS sweetheart as you can get!!

I think it's all about the mileage. Women aren't constitutionally equipped for lots of partners. They lose their ability to bond and nearly all loyalty after a certain point.
 

"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.

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l_e_g_e_n_d

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Little to do with age or notches directly; more to do with Sexual Market Value (SMV).

If a woman had 5-10 relationships with men of SMV 5 - 7, and meets you at a 9, you can bet your azz you are the keeper. In the same scenario, if you were a 5-7, you become just one of those men, so the relation has average chances to succeed. And if your value were a 3, your chances of a successful relation decreases further.

Thus, the more relations a woman has, the greater the possibility that her top previous partner holds a SMV that matches or exceeds yours.

Under the same presumption, high school sweethearts, who have a higher probability for successful LTRs, have little or no past relationships from which to gauge/compare, so you start out as and remain the champ.
 

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I dated my gf when we were in high school together. We each moved away for college to different states, married other people, got divorced, and moved back home at about the same time.
 

evan12

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I bet the tender age of sweethearts will not be the same , that only worked before mobile age , just wait another ten years and reread the statistics
 

zekko

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Some of the people I know who have been married the longest have been dating since high school. I've always figured it's all they've ever known, so they go with it. They literally don't know what they're missing.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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