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.
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.
Yeah, there was a time when that was pushing it for me, I was highly motivated and had an animalistic attitude about hitting the weights. I still do, but I'm in sort of a lull and have been satisfied with my progress. Espi just posted an inspirational vid that says you should never be satisfied, always be pushing, and I have forgotten that.RiceandChicken said:
I'm not well versed by any means in steroidology, but do you suppose one of the reasons you didn't lose anything is because you only did run a short 4 week cycle? I think it could be a possibility but then again I could be wrong.Purefilth said:Absolutely the Dbol - raised strength there by about 20%. Its been about 6 weeks, so that's all out of my system now.
I'm quite surprised I kept the strength and the size to be honest - people said I would piss it all away as water weight as soon as I came off cos I wasn't running test too. Bullshiit you don't lose your gains. I wonder if I would've gained more if I had kept on to the full 6 weeks instead of just the 4.
one way to find out
Yup, absolutely agree here.Purefilth said:
I do them on my knees, and yeah I go parallel to the ground with my torso, I don't use my hip flexors (as much as I can help it, I mean they can't help but fire during that sort of movement where you break at the hips), and sometimes slightly touch my stomach to the ground to make sure I'm low enough. Even though I can do a lot, they still aren't easy lol, but I suppose I could take it up a notch by trying them standing. I've tried that actually, about a month and a half ago, and it's just insane how much harder they are, I couldn't even do one.[S]alvatore said:
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
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.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Yeah man, I did.TheStig said:
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.
