MushroomGod
Don Juan
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"I rubbed one out thinking about you today."
She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
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.
Damn, there is this girl that always calls me cute, I'm so going to use this on her the next time she says itHaley said:I had just met this one girl in the hall who was friend of another chick I knew, and after a few minutes of conversation, she said:
"You're such a cutie."
I took it almost as an insult and said with a sexy grin on my face...
"Hey, I'm more than that, trust me." *wink*
She just kind of melted all over me after that.
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.
I don't get it either... were you calling her a shemale?TheCraziestJ said:While at the bowling alley last Thursday:
HB7: (to some guy she’s bowling with in the lane next to mine) Hey! Let go of my ball!
TheCraziestJ: Amazing! I Think it, you say it!
(she doesn’t seem to get the humor)
TheCraziestJ: Don’t worry, you’ll understand it a little later.
that was classic AFC, not smooth newbie...ThatGuyOverThere said:Girl: You always seem so happy when I see you!
Me: Maybe it's because whenever you are around I can't help but be happy.
Girl: Wow, that was smooth...
Me:![]()
THE_ADDMAN said:not the smoothest, but this is something pretty smooth I said a few weeks ago
(we were at work, and she was trying to get me to take a shift for her)
Her: want to take a shift for me?
Me: nah, cant.
Her: c'mon, you know you love me
Me: ... *looked up her body slowly, then right in her eyes* parts of you.
Her: :O! *slaps me on the chest playfully*
Me: *smirk*
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.
I think that one all depends on your delivery....it's easy to make that one sound bad lol.moosebutter said:I've got a few, but this one has got to be my favorite. This is just after we both moved into the same apartment complex.
Me: Hi Jenny
Her: I've forgotten your name
Me: Oh, that's ok. It's Mike. I have a hard time remembering girls' names after I've met them, especially if they're attractive. I was lucky with your name.
Her: (Looks embarrassed) (She makes an attempt to say my name, but forgets again)
Me: Oh, I must be attractive. It's Mike.
Her friend is sitting next to her and purposefully calls me by the wrong name just before we part ways. She forgot my name again. It was classic.![]()
Umm....how exactly is that cliche?Purple-Haze said:This may be cliche...but it definitely caught my attention.
He and I were joking and I was engaging in a little bit of flirty verbal sparring. I said something (alluding to his inability to woo me...anyway this wasn't explicit but was the gist of the jokey "tehe" flirting).
Anyway, he responded with, "baby, I ain't no one-trick pony." It was the way he said it, the pause before he said it, and that sexy laugh after he said it.
*SWOOOOON*
Well the phrase "one trick pony" is cliche b/c I've heard that line before (in various contexts).ARrocket said:Umm....how exactly is that cliche?
I think this reiterates how important it is that no matter what you say, you have to say it with confidence and with power.
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.
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.