"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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eko

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Has anyone else taken the player thing way too far, and played and manipulated people's emotions?

I'll tell my story. I changed completely. Never kissed a girl till I was 18. I gained 30 lbs, I got an unbelievable amount of confidence. I enjoy being myself. But was I truly being myself? I got a kind of high off this power that girls were attracted to me. Some of them told me they fell for me because of my eyes. I'm a genuinely good soul, I think, so people tell me, maybe because I feel guilty about this, and you can almost instantly tell what kind of person is by looking into their eyes. Anyway, I took the player thing way too far. Of course, spinning plates is good and stuff, and dating in general so you can weed out the ones you like or don't like. Anyway, I didn't do much weeding out, I just kept a roster of girls.

I tell girls STRAIGHT UP that I'm not looking for a relationship, and that we are strictly friends. I make sure they are ok with it, and I tell them there are other girls in the picture. Well I believe you shouldn't be having sex with more than one person, and I haven't been having sex with multiple girls, but, the girls fell for me, hard. I broke 2 girls hearts in a row just because I'm honest. I wasn't harsh about it but I told them that I'm not as into them as they are into me once they told me they were really into me. I know I played them because I knew from the very beginning they weren't girls I could fall for, and I should have had the foresight to see they would fall for me. Now I feel terrible, guilty, and saddened that I did this to nice, good people that don't really deserve to be hurt. I feel like I manipulated emotions, with some of the techniques and all the stuff I legitimately changed about myself to make myself more attractive. Maybe that wasn't the real me.

So just don't go after some girls just because you know you CAN get them unless they are just shallow party girls or whatever that get used. And if you really do find someone special, work on developing some foresight so you don't let something good go.
 

"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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Obsidian

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You're right; it is silly to date girls that you know you're not interested in. But if you're dating girls that have a chance in your mind and you eventually disqualify them, that's their problem.
 

Ace of Flames

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You aren't responsible for other people's emotions. Not people you don't care about, anyway. And if you care about EVERYONE, you have problems.

So, if these girls are so emotional as to totally breakdown over you, a guy they've just been going out with casually, then that's their deal. Move on.
 

"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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