"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Sure fire negs

"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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Atom Smasher

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Negs aren't supposed to be used in "any situation". They are surgical strikes to knock a stuck-up girl off her pedestal under varied conditions.

The better looking the girl, the more you need to use them in general. Use with an insecure/ugly girl will backfire on you.
 

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BeginningDJ said:
Kbomb said:
Sup fatty.
I was gonna give serious advice, and then I read these guys and started cracking up.

Anyway, negs are stupid. You can't use negs just for sake of using negs. They have to naturally fit into a conversation. So there's no point in walking around with pre-scripted negs in your head. You're going to sound like some PUA weirdo....and besides, women already know what "negging" is.
 

"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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too many people view negs as must do's, a hammer tactic, to neg, you need not even say a word, it can be and is best used subtely and creatively, naturally, best of all with humour slight sarcasm!

a subtle neg can be when a girl tells a joke, and others laugh, dont, give her a blank...what? look? it all depends on the situation, there is no one size fits all approach.
 

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As Atom and Iceberg already explained, negging just for the sake of doing it is pointless. There's a time and place for them. Use them when a girl starts acting a little too big for her britches, but do them in a comical way. Negging girls randomly not only makes you look like a weirdo but it will completely backfire on you and you'll either be a deemed a misogynist or an a-hole.

Just be funny. The best jokes have truth to them and are generally at the expense of others. Don't be afraid to clown on yourself at times either, it shows confidence. But really, there is no extreme or the other. There's a time and place for everything. Use negs to knock her off her pedastool (if she already has high IL, there's no need for them), be funny to make her feel comfortable and gain some rapport, and then kino to seduce her. If you start one phase before finishing the other then it all crumbles. Women are emotional creatures, you have to tear down their defenses one by one, negging is just one more tool to do it but it's not always needed.

-Scars
 

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"So you're the type of woman who is..."
"No, I only (do whatever) with pretty girls..."

A lot depends on the situation...basically anything that portrays her as being ugly, unattractive, or fat works pretty well normally...
 

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Well, I don't have any pre-prepared negs, but I've observed that Mystery does... He'll often be all like (to the hot girl's friends) "How do you hang out with her?" and "You can't take this one anywhere, can you?", etc.
 

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good advice all, i asked for my friend. i told him about this forum so he wanted me to ask for him. he's all about the negs, i think they should be used sparingly depending on the girl. you guys put into words what i couldnt. i showed him the responses and i think he and i both learned from it. thanks
 

"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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The best negs are always 50% compliment and 50% smackdown.
A favourite of mine (yes... I know it's from the movie Topgun)

"You're a lot smarter than you look"
 
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