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.
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.
Nice going. Didn't know "Location:RO" was a state.BigJimbo said:
So you believe whatever you read on an Internet forum? No wonder you have issues. He IS NOT living in Romania. I can promise you that. There is NO WAY. His English is Americanized. Trust me, he is an immigrant boy.JustLurk said:
Don't like Gypsy d---. Romanian girls are the pits of Eastern Europe. They are a mix of Gypsy and Turk.ChalengeGuyFan said:Except I'm European; Eastern European.
And you have a thing for Eastern Europeans.
You'd suck my d!ck, wouldn't you BJ?
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.
Nice going!BigJimbo said:
Better than being a 5'2" Asian American dude named Winston, living in Russia, like you.BigJimbo said:
He is not Winston.cordoncordon said:Better than being a 5'2" Asian American dude named Winston, living in Russia, like you.
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.
Lol what is wrong with you?BigJimbo said:
What? There are 11 time zones in Russia. Get a map. Travel. I am an American. I don't deny that. I am VERY glad I was born in California. I don't deny that. My point is that for straight American guys life in parts of this world is just better.ChalengeGuyFan said:He is not Winston.
Since he mentioned my posting hours I checked his, as well.
It's not me who's posting at 4 a.m. Romanian time (GMT+2), but him. That would be after 5 a.m. in Russia (up to 10 a.m.) or after 9 p.m. on the East Coast, until after midnight.
Draw the conclusions yourselves.
@tavi: ce craci!
I am not Winston. He pumps his site as much as you pump penny stocks. You come here because they laughed you off the horse betting sites.cordoncordon said:Better than being a 5'2" Asian American dude named Winston, living in Russia, like you.
As far as the original girl in this thread, yes she is pretty, but something about her looks to "manly" for me. I don't know.
I still say that before she lost too much weight recently, this girl, and we all know who it is, is by far without a doubt the closest girl to perfection I have ever seen. Perfect body, perfect hair, and oh those blue eyes. And a good attitude to boot from what I can tell.
http://dailyworldtrends.com/wp-cont...an-Fox-Aborts-Black-Baby-Rumors-Confirmed.jpg
http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/2009/images/04/22/megan-fox.jpg
cordoncordon said:Better than being a 5'2" Asian American dude named Winston, living in Russia, like you.
As far as the original girl in this thread, yes she is pretty, but something about her looks to "manly" for me. I don't know.
I still say that before she lost too much weight recently, this girl, and we all know who it is, is by far without a doubt the closest girl to perfection I have ever seen. Perfect body, perfect hair, and oh those blue eyes. And a good attitude to boot from what I can tell.
http://dailyworldtrends.com/wp-cont...an-Fox-Aborts-Black-Baby-Rumors-Confirmed.jpg
http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/2009/images/04/22/megan-fox.jpg
Well, looking for validation from the Net is sad. Seriously. I could really give a damn about who any of you date or will date. Just like I hope you could give a damn about who I date. This could be a nice site for sharing ideas. Instead it is a place where sad characters brag about how great they are (penny stock threads).Bluntmaster said:
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Oh, I think you do care. A LOT. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying to validate how "hot" all of the Eastern Euro girls are, or in your case, the hookers that you hire. I mean, just about every post you make, has something to do with Eastern Europe and how great it is. To the point it borders on the verge of compulsive insanity. No, forget that, it is insanity. You live your life for that. Sounds like you changed your entire existence for that. That is ALL you talk about, that is ALL that your entire life seems to revolve around.BigJimbo said:
If mines a 6, yours is a 2. Just sayin'. But hey, as long as your happy.Bluntmaster said:
cordoncordon said:If mines a 6, yours is a 2. Just sayin'. But hey, as long as your happy.
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.