"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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Trade offs when you choose a Woman

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If you choose a working woman, you have to accept that she can't handle the house full time.
If you choose a housewife who can take care of you and manage the home completely, you need to accept that she doesn't make money.
If you choose a submissive woman, you must accept that she depends on you.
If you choose to be with a brave woman, you must accept that she is tough and has thoughts of her own.
If you choose a beautiful woman, you have to
accept expenses too.
If you choose to be with a great woman, you must accept that she is tough and firm.
No woman is perfect.
A woman has her own ′′ good thing ′′ that defines who she is and makes her unique.
- Unknown
 

"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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If you choose a working woman, you have to accept that she can't handle the house full time.
If you choose a housewife who can take care of you and manage the home completely, you need to accept that she doesn't make money.
If you choose a submissive woman, you must accept that she depends on you.
If you choose to be with a brave woman, you must accept that she is tough and has thoughts of her own.
If you choose a beautiful woman, you have to
accept expenses too.
If you choose to be with a great woman, you must accept that she is tough and firm.
No woman is perfect.
A woman has her own ′′ good thing ′′ that defines who she is and makes her unique.
- Unknown
That said...... be carefull what you wish for, it might become true!
 

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Dear Rocky,
Having had two wives who gave up work,I can tell you that in Australia you have to continue supporting her financially to what the Family Court considers her previous standard of living,she still gets the same proportion of your assets as a working Woman would despite not having contributed anything,further the Court considers that your keeping her at home deprived her of achieving her ambitions until the youngest child reaches the age of sixteen...For many working class guys this throws them into poverty for years Sad Huh?
 

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Dear Rocky,
Having had two wives who gave up work,I can tell you that in Australia you have to continue supporting her financially to what the Family Court considers her previous standard of living,she still gets the same proportion of your assets as a working Woman would despite not having contributed anything,further the Court considers that your keeping her at home deprived her of achieving her ambitions until the youngest child reaches the age of sixteen...For many working class guys this throws them into poverty for years Sad Huh?
Makes no logical sense. If I was one of those dudes, I'd just leave the country, renounce my citizenship and love from afar those kids.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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.

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Dear Rocky,
Having had two wives who gave up work,I can tell you that in Australia you have to continue supporting her financially to what the Family Court considers her previous standard of living,she still gets the same proportion of your assets as a working Woman would despite not having contributed anything,further the Court considers that your keeping her at home deprived her of achieving her ambitions until the youngest child reaches the age of sixteen...For many working class guys this throws them into poverty for years Sad Huh?
It is very similar here in Belgium. When a woman divorces her man the court decides she should be able to keep the same standard of living. So the man has to pay up. They decide this because it is said that a woman shouldn't dare divorce her husband if she were to lose her current standard of living.

Meanwhile lots of men lose their standard of living.

To be fair: I am not a lawyer, nor have I ever been married and I never will. I do not know the specifics of these legal situations, not do I intend to. Never get married boys. Listen to uncle Mo
 

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It is very similar here in Belgium. When a woman divorces her man the court decides she should be able to keep the same standard of living. So the man has to pay up. They decide this because it is said that a woman shouldn't dare divorce her husband if she were to lose her current standard of living.

Meanwhile lots of men lose their standard of living.

To be fair: I am not a lawyer, nor have I ever been married and I never will. I do not know the specifics of these legal situations, not do I intend to. Never get married TO WESTERN WOMEN boys. Listen to uncle Mo
 

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If you choose a working woman, you have to accept that she can't handle the house full time.
If you choose a housewife who can take care of you and manage the home completely, you need to accept that she doesn't make money.
If you choose a submissive woman, you must accept that she depends on you.
If you choose to be with a brave woman, you must accept that she is tough and has thoughts of her own.
If you choose a beautiful woman, you have to
accept expenses too.
If you choose to be with a great woman, you must accept that she is tough and firm.
No woman is perfect.
You make it sound like "choosing" a woman is like choosing from a buffet.

Most dudes get what they get and hope for the best.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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You make it sound like "choosing" a woman is like choosing from a buffet.

Most dudes get what they get and hope for the best.
You are 100% in charge of YOUR choices. If you don't reject people who don't treat you how you want to be treated then you select that treatment....
 

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You are 100% in charge of YOUR choices. If you don't reject people who don't treat you how you want to be treated then you select that treatment....
Your choices are constrained by your abilities.

I can "choose" to slam dunk but that won't give me more vertical leap.
 

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I can't help anyone who wants to play victim and creates constraints for themselves.

TO I'll bet if you trained for a year, you could increase your vertical...Or found yourself a spring board...There is always a solution if you don't limit yourself in the first place...Since we are throwing out Metaphors....

You can train to be more charming, more approachable, more observant, more fit, more stylish, and you can change your mindset to be more positive. Mainly by who you choose to be around.
 

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Your choices are constrained by your abilities.

I can "choose" to slam dunk but that won't give me more vertical leap.
You make a decision that you will commit to the goal.

You would take the actionable steps of finding a suitable training method to increase the vertical leap.

You find a wildly successful routine, that's well documented. It's performed over a period of 8-12 weeks to gain 6" for your first time in a program. You take the actionable step of performing your workout routine, the actionable step of appropriate nutrition and rest, and then you do it again. The 8-12 weeks routine is performed to the letter.

The actionable step after the routine is performed to measure. then a week or two of deload, in which you play ball, but you don't train for max vert.

Start a new routine using your new vertical maximum as the input. Another 8-12 weeks program. Since your no longer a newbie, the gains come slower. This time you may gain 2-4". In your observation, you noticed that you have some body fat slop, and that your core strength could stand to improve, your ankle and heels could stand to be more stable and strong, and they could stand for increased mobility. You add in routines to handle those deficiencies. After the 8-12 weeks, you measure again. Another week or two of deload.

You map out your progress on a calendar. You've gained 10" in 24 weeks. To reach your goal of an 18" increase appears to going to take 18 months. An 18" increase puts you at 40", which means you will be doing all sorts of difficult dunks.

There are some side benefits of achieving this goal in feeling more sure on your feet, and more control which can transfer to some other activities you do.
 
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