"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 kind of sh*t test?

thenewreign

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So today i was eating lunch in the caf at school and i went to buy some food. The special was a burger, fries and a drink so I got that and went to sit down and eat. A little while after one of my friends came over and just grabbed some fries and took some of my drink. I didn't mind about the fries and I just gave her the drink since it tasted pretty sh*tty anyways. Still though, I found it kinda rude how she would just grab something like that in front of my face without asking so I gave her a "reallly?" face and went on with eating and chatting. Whenever you order fries it's expected that people will mooch off you so it didn't bother me much but I was completely unprepared for her to grab my drink too.. I didn't really want to make a scene so I just kept cool but in my mind I was thinking "what the fvck..?"

Its the first time in a while I found myself unsure of how to react. I know this obviously isn't that big of a deal but I don't want to find myself in a similar situation when something actually matters and be taken advantage of. This girl was in a modelling competition recently and scored pretty high and I've always got a "I'm the sh*t" kind of vibe from her; I feel like this could have been a some kind of sh*t test against me. A lot of guys in my grade think she's hot which probably fuels her ego quite a bit; I've never been attracted to her because she can be somewhat of an air head sometimes. None the less, we did talk a bunch last year and a bit the year before so we're pretty close I suppose.

How would you guys react? Do you also find this disrespectful or do you think I am just being stupid? Was this a sh*t test?
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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thenewreign

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lol i feel like this thread was so stupid now.. Now that I reflect, I see I'm clearly not as straight up and comfortable with people as I believed. Of course this was disrespectful and of course I should have said something about it, fvck suppressing my feelings to please others. I've always been the nice passive guy so it's hard for me to break out of it but my goal now is to be more in touch and expressive of my emotions.
 

Watawata

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start talking to new people and being more natural,dude!
 

Black Dog

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no contact, all the way. ive banged a lot of girls in my time (some guys also) and this situation requires no contact
 

Skyline

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I would of been like:"No no no. I bought this stuff for me not you."
While smiling and grabbing my stuff and facing away from her so she cant reach.
 

"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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