Visionist
Master Don Juan
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2016
- Messages
- 837
- Reaction score
- 876
- Age
- 38
The plates get cleared and the silence lands like a brick. You can feel her waiting. Your brain offers up your commute, your job, the weather — topics that have ended more second dates than bad breath.
Here's what most guys never learn: women hand out free conversational material all night long. Tiny clues about what they actually want to discuss. Catch them and you never run out of things to say — because she's telling you what to say next.
Rule 4 of the "22 Rules" trains your ear to catch every single one.
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.
Did you notice she is wearing her mask upside down? The piece that bends and goes over the nose is worn on chin.
Kinda reminds me of this pic...Did you notice she is wearing her mask upside down? The piece that bends and goes over the nose is worn on chin.
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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.
Maybe she has a pointy chin.Did you notice she is wearing her mask upside down? The piece that bends and goes over the nose is worn on chin.
Men get nervous approaching women because women have shamed men into showing any type of sexual intention. When tv, music and movies and the Disney channel reinforce it, it inspires men to show weird and inefficient strategies of displaying their attraction. Women love the power this brings them all the while keeping dating and relationships on their terms.This is exactly the kind of girl I'd get nervous cold approaching and probably stammer and mess it up.
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.