"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 Laugh At Yourself Thread

Gubby

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Gubby said:
Update: I've just been thinking (I do that a lot ;) ) Well, I've tried applying this laughing at yourself thing to more and more things about my life. Bascially my idea was just to find all the things that were absurd about myself and laugh at them.

It's INCREDIBLE. I had an anxiety that was obviously irrational and I couldn't find any rational (NLP, TA etc) way of solving it. Just now? I decided to focus on how ABSURD I was being, and LAUGHED at myself, and BAM! It's gone!

LOL I'm such a nutter. Trying to take humour seriously! :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

Bump!
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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.

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Ol'BlueEyes

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When anything bad happens, sleep on it. If you can laugh about it the next day, it's all good. The bad times are never as bad as they seem (and the good times don't last long enough).
 

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I was walking upstairs to my class with a girl and i tripped and almost ate it. LMAO, now that I think of it, it was pretty damn funny. I regained my balance and we both laughed our asses off.

PLEASE LAUGH AT ME!!!!!!!!!

kjashflkjsa';
 

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A few years ago, A friend of mine was sad because this b1tch totally played him and as we passed her in the halls something just took control of me and I looked at her with the biggest smile of my life and just shouted "HELLO B1TCH!"

It was so fvcking funny. I'll never forget the look on her face lmao
 

"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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