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.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
is an excerpt from:A. Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent and intense sexual
fantasies, sexual urges, or sexual behaviors in association with 3 or
more of the following 5 criteria:
A1. Time consumed by sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors repetitively
interferes with other important (non-sexual) goals, activities and
obligations.
A2. Repetitively engaging in sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors in
response to dysphoric mood states (e.g., anxiety, depression,
boredom, irritability).
A3. Repetitively engaging in sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors in
response to stressful life events.
A4. Repetitive but unsuccessful efforts to control or significantly
reduce these sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors.
A5. Repetitively engaging in sexual behaviors while disregarding the
risk for physical or emotional harm to self or others.
B. There is clinically significant personal distress or impairment in
social, occupational or other important areas of functioning
associated with the frequency and intensity of these sexual fantasies,
urges or behaviors.
C. These sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors are not due to the direct
physiological effect of an exogenous substance (e.g., a drug of abuse
or a medication)
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.
You must exhaust yourself @ day time, if you have trouble sleeping at night you've already screwed yourself.Solomon said:day 3
I'm suffering guys
I've been going ham at the gym doing HIIT, I literally feel like a walking hormone
nights are the hardest, I can't sleep....
I don't know wtf to do....aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhh
Boilermaker said:You guys need a psychiatry primer.
Bottom-line is: In order for masturbation to be a sexual disorder that is outlined in DSM-V (like the proposed hyper-sexuality disorder in the following paper), it needs to meet the following criteria:
is an excerpt from:
http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Sex and GID Lit Reviews/Paraphilias/KAFKAHD.pdf
Now Solomon et. al. must ask themselves whether they are at all close to meeting the criteria outlined above. If the answer is no, you are doing self-torture for no reason, and losing your confidence in the process - because you keep failing a futile challenge.
The key is functioning in a lot of newly proposed disorders in psychiatry. IF you are functioning, your diagnosis could be different from a guy who exactly engages in the same behavior, but cannot function.
I think this is the reason for many compulsory masturbators, masturbation is no longer a sexual release but a stress reliever.A2. Repetitively engaging in sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors in
response to dysphoric mood states (e.g., anxiety, depression,
boredom, irritability).
A3. Repetitively engaging in sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors in
response to stressful life events.
I work a office job....Dedication said:You must exhaust yourself @ day time, if you have trouble sleeping at night you've already screwed yourself.
You can also choose to sleep 2-3 hours later, not ideal but i don't see another option. Thats how i always dealt with it if i ****ed up @ day time.
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.
Hey man I wanna help you out! Can you gimme your e-mail or msn? Something like dat.Rocky92 said:I am on day 16 and something has scared the **** out of me. For the first week and a half I felt great. But today I saw the finest female in these tight yoga pants...something that I would have gone crazy over before, but I felt nothing!!!? Has anybody experienced this? I am on the verge of calling it quits and need advice. Ishould have a raging sex drive at this point right??
Has anybody experienced this? I would appreciate advice from experience rather than a theory because I know many of us are hyped up on the positives of it(as I was too) but I need to kno for sure, I dont wanna end up with ED or some ****. Mayb its because ive been completely dry (no gf at this point). but I have heard alot about this 7 to 10 day peak and then dropp off point. Idk, I am confused at it all. but I dont know wat to do. Has anybody experienced it but kept going and felt it return? Im very motivated but if I feel that my **** is goin dead than ill jump off thw wagon rite here
Somebody please help me out!
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.
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.