Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.

You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.

The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.

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The Dream Train

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I am reminded of something my mum used to tell me when I was a kid to try and make me into a wussy nice guy.

She used to tell me that there were dream trains. 3 of them:

The 1st train led to a place where all the good dreams were (flying, superpowers, beating up teachers and stuff).

The 2nd train led to average dreams (shopping for groceries, digging for worms, riding the bus).

And the last train led to all the nightmares (werewolves, vampires, transvestites etc).

Each train departed at 10pm, 11pm and 1am so if I wanted good dreams I would have to be asleep by 10pm and if I stayed up later than 11pm I was in for nightmares!

I thought I could outwit my mum by saying if I am awake after 11pm I'll stay up and watch TV until after 1am so I miss all the trains and don't get nightmares. But when I told her this, she looked at me sympathetically and said:

"If you miss all of the trains you'll wet the bed"

"Ok then I won't go to bed at all!" I answered with a ****y smirk.

"Then you'll piss yourself at school!"
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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I stay up past 1AM wetting the bed all the time! :whistle:
 

The Truth

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DrBeard said:
The 1st train led to a place where all the good dreams were (flying, superpowers, beating up teachers and stuff).

And the last train led to all the nightmares (werewolves, vampires, transvestites etc).
Were these your mother's examples of good/bad dreams? It might explain your contempt for authority and your hatred towards effeminate men. She trained you well! :)
 

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DrBeard said:
to try and make me into a wussy nice guy.
I don't know your mom but I'm pretty sure she did that simply because she wanted you to go to sleep at 10 pm.
 

"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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Panda 2000 said:
I don't know your mom but I'm pretty sure she did that simply because she wanted you to go to sleep at 10 pm.
Maybe that's when "uncle" Frank came round to see her. :crackup:
 
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