"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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There's always another one...

Kodak

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I went to a club this past weekend. My first visit in a long time.

I was surprised how easy and fun it was compared to how I had remembered it. I was dancing with girls the whole night.

One girl started shaking her ass on me almost immediately. I danced with her for an hour and a half. Within five minutes I was dancing with another girl, and we were making out a few minutes after that. We danced for about a half hour. I danced alone for a few minutes, and some girl said I danced like a "white boy". I grabbed for her and she ran away and didn't bother me again. As I was dancing this pair of girls moved from about 15 feet away to right next to me. I danced with the one girl until close, about 45 minutes.

None of them seemed that interested in me, so I didn't bother number closing. The key here for me was that I was never really needy. One girl left, and I got another. She left and I found another, and if the place hadn't closed I know I could have found another after her.
 

"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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