PrettyBoyAJ
Master Don Juan
Don't do it. I've been there done that. Threw thousands of dollars in the trash.
"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.
The Truth About Diamonds
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Don't do it. I've been there done that. Threw thousands of dollars in the trash.
"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.
speed dawg
Master Don Juan
I don't think it hurts to buy an engagement ring. But we need to get away from the huge expensive diamond part. In our culture today though, how do you do this? Let's move past the problem, and start finding the solution.
Tictac
Banned
The value of diamonds is set by the near complete control of every fact of extraction to sale by one company.
Outside of the price they charge, of what value is a diamond?
Outside of the price they charge, of what value is a diamond?
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
Synthetic diamonds are interesting. They are valued at what they can get someone to pay. So the smallest stones are about a grand, but a giant one is like two grand.
At one point, fake diamonds were indistinguishable from real ones, after they figured out to include a few flacks of carbon so that it was not too perfect. Then DeBeers instituted a microscopic coding program for all diamonds. Every stone now has the equivalent of a serial number. That's the only way to tell a real one from a fake.
At one point, fake diamonds were indistinguishable from real ones, after they figured out to include a few flacks of carbon so that it was not too perfect. Then DeBeers instituted a microscopic coding program for all diamonds. Every stone now has the equivalent of a serial number. That's the only way to tell a real one from a fake.