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.
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.
Yeah, and my father was a POW for 11 years in the worst military prison in world. Made Auschwitz look like a 5-star hotel lol. Doesn’t mean **** though, most things about being a man I had to learn on my own, not through him. Quit riding off the coattails of someone else’s success/masculinity. That’s possibly the most unmanly thing you can do.My father was green beret soldier and trained with the gurkhas so I don’t need a lecture about being a man , and yes I’m still working the media is not over blowing this this is ****ing real!!!
There are people out there that want to help others. I suffer from unfortunately, a lot of empathy and I can feel very sorry for people in certain situation to the point where I help people out that i do not actually like. It's more like easing a pain, than gaining pleasure i'd say.I never understood it when people say that they just enjoy making people feel better.
I second your statement about doctors, I realized that about the medical industry in recent years. It’s really just a job to most of them. That’s why I completely disagree with the sentiment about “finding a career you like” because in the end, work is work lol.There are people out there that want to help others. I suffer from unfortunately, a lot of empathy and I can feel very sorry for people in certain situation to the point where I help people out that i do not actually like. It's more like easing a pain, than gaining pleasure i'd say.
I still stand by what i say about doctors and nurses though, most of them hate it, and i understand why.
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.
cucked by the courts thobezos is alpha af.
What’s your definition of an alpha? Some guy who selflessly donates his last dollar to a women’s shelter? Alphas are not nice guys.Zuckerberg and Bezos are both sociopaths. Zuck stole Facebook and ****ed over the real brains behind it, and Bezos is practically seeking world domination. If that’s your definition of ‘alpha’, I’d think you better reconsider lol
Courts might be a thing of the past. Goodbye, habeus corpus, we had a good runcucked by the courts tho
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Doesn’t mean they’re assholes either.What’s your definition of an alpha? Some guy who selflessly donates his last dollar to a women’s shelter? Alphas are not nice guys.
Never got that PM. Also, my shift supervisor said you never showed up yesterday. WTF? Some relief help you were.
but you are not a man because youre not sacrificing and saving lifes of countless peopleWhat a dumb fuking thread.. How old are you? 12 or something.
We are not men because we are not in the medical field trained professionals..
OP truely is a troll retard of the highest order!!
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
plus I'm doing grocerie shopping for neighbours who aren't able to do it on their own right now. I've got the imune system of a roach, give me your shopping list ma'amI'm fighting the coronavirus, by staying home. Doesn't get much more alpha than that!
True lolI'm fighting the coronavirus, by staying home. Doesn't get much more alpha than that!
Are you alpha too jack12345?I am alpha.
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.