positivity_injection
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Edit: ****in nerds, u cant be helped
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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.
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.
alot of times, u gotta talk to a girl like you KNOW that you own her, and using the word "baby" is a good way to implement that my friendPlayToWin said:very nice job, better than I would have done probably, however use of the word baby got a little annoying, but its got the job done so who cares.![]()
positivity_injection said:edit: she's 20 but lives with parents, somehow they still do have a curfew over her azz lol, dunno what that is all about
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.
:crackup:ME: dont hey me when i call u baby
HER: im sorry baby
HER: im sorry baby
ME: say hi the right way right now
HER: ok baby
ME: how do u say hi to me? im waiting
HER: hey baby
HER: hi handsome
ME: ill help u
ME: say "hi my handsome baby"
ME: thatd work best
HER: my my handsome baby
Awesome!ME: celtics play tuesday, probly at 8 like always, so id love to pick u up at 7 or so and watch the game with u, drink, relax, and hold u in my arms while making love to you all night long katie baby
My Name is Nobody said:How fat is she?
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.
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.
Nighthawk said:Wow you almost got her to agree to see you sometime maybe. Impressive.
baby?... maybe right after sex as a compliment, idk...L777 said:Lol funny s.hit. baby baby baby. Not my thing - you can say almost anything to a girl who's already attracted though, particularly through the medium of IM.
He's mad as hellllllllllu mad?
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.