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.
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
mrRuckus said:Hi i'm a 14 year old girl and roll my eyes at people.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
Thanks really appreciate it. People fail to realize you can't stick people on a cookie cutter this or that. You just have to get in the gym and find what works best for you and speak with other experienced lifters who are also training seriously.Drum&Bass said:Hey whats up, I've been following your posts for awhile now and I gotta admit, I'm a fan. You do things that a few sheeps on this forum fail to understand.
You think for yourself and your not afraid to challenge the status quo.
Its people like you who learn the fastest and over time will have the most to benefit and contribute. keep it up.
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.
Thanks brother!ATP said:Meh, the vid doesn't work for me. My buddy listens to them though and he says they are good.![]()
Nice workout m8, a lot of volume, I bet your chest/tris was pretty dead after that one.
Yeah he was way ahead of everyone. Everything he did was so precise. I know he used steroids and all but to see where he got his small frame to his peak olympia physique. Was just shocking.ATP said:Sweet, never tried one of those. Looks like you might be choking yourself if you do it with a front squat though considering the safety squat addon for the neck. But who knows, it might be better than a normal bar... it feels like I'm chokign myself with it anyway ^^
Yeah, I'm from Europe so might be cause of that. The vid with Yates was awesome though, he is one of the few bodybuilders I really respect. I mean you can tell he knows his **** when he is talking and he doesn't lift with his ego either. I don't know if you've seen "blood and guts", his training vid but after watching it I saw him in an entirly different way.
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.
Diet is pretty simple I shoot for 1.5-2 grams X BW in protein. Major staples for me are beef (shoot for a lb a day or more), whey protein shakes (take in at least 100-125 around workouts) whole eggs/eggwhites(6-12 a day), sometimes chicken (hate that **** though, luv mah beef!) Turkey Bacon.EFFORT said:Are you doing this routine with the bodybuilder guys you talk about or is this something you do on your own? If the bodybuilders are your training partners then keep on with it and stick with them. If its just you solo I would switch it over to a standard 2day DC split (Once in that frame work specific cool "tricks" can be pulled out for lat width,back-thickness etc) . What does your diet look like?
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.