Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
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.
Don't feel bad. Mine technically would not have been shared either and thus I didn't even put it as one of the choices. Mine would have been:wishyo said:Nobody shared my opinion.. yet
Tictac is completely right here. There's nothing wrong with the survey per se, but it won't reveal what percentage of women cheat. It will reveal what percentage of guys on the forum get cheated on. Most guys on here will have dated numerous women, and some may even have been married more than once. A guy might have dated 20 women and maybe one might have cheated on him.Tictac said:How the Hell would you get a percentage of women that 'cheat' from this 'survey'?
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
"I am gay and don't date women." lollogicallefty said:Don't feel bad. Mine technically would not have been shared either and thus I didn't even put it as one of the choices. Mine would have been:
"I was FOR SURE cheated on by a woman I married and thought was my wife but then I found out she was a bigamist and married to TWO other dudes in TWO other States so we had an annulment and thus were never lawfully married under Illinois law"
I choose the "While in a LTR I was FOR SURE cheated on" which was really accurate too. Sense we were not lawfully married I am not bound to ever call her my "ex wife". I hear through the grapevine that she still calls me her "ex husband" though. I always correct anyone who refers to her as my ex wife.
Thank you for being gay..wishyo said:"I am gay and don't date women." lol![]()
Posters that are in constant search of threads to fuel their confirmation bias. :yes:noobolgy said:What kind of retard would take the numbers at face value?
"most" is the key word here. And I'm not sure if I'd go that far.noobolgy said:You have to take the things you stated into account, I did, and I assume most others would also.
I agree. And it's a thread that could give the opportunity for the guys who haven't, or rarely, been cheated on to tell their side. Most of the time it's the guys that have been cheated on who are the ones speaking up, which isn't bad, but it's only one perspective.Its making for some good fun and discussion.
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.