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I'm 3 hours east [Kingston], but up for a meeting in TO or Ottawa sometime in September.
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.
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.
Who are you talking to?Krassus said:LTR is finito. I'm backPM me!
Everybody!!Pink said:Who are you talking to?
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.
yo krassus, on the WSA site where does one go to read your story?Krassus said:LTR is finito. I'm backPM me!
It's not on there. I know, i know... i've been asked many times. For some reason, i just feel like i don't really deserve to write one about myself yet. I know i've achieved some great things, but realistically, i'm still far, far from where i want to be and i don't want to take my motivation away by congratulating myself too early. I really don't know how to handle this though, as a LOT of people are asking. They'll hear little hints here and there and get all excited. I'm definitely gonna write a book (a REAL book) at some point in time, and i'm really not sure how i could sum everything up into a single post. Perhaps i'll come up with a way to post some kind of a brief summary, and outline what i've been able to achieve without having to get overly descriptive, and spending days, or weeks writing it.bigdan said:yo krassus, on the WSA site where does one go to read your story?
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.