"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Trying to Cool Off the Chatty Chicks

EyeBRollin

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Still running into this. Met some chick on Instagram through a mutual group events page. After a few DMs back and forth, I exited the convo saying we might see each other at the group event. As soon as I walked in, she walked over and tried to strike conversation. High IOIs, positive body language, basically kept bumping into me throughout the afternoon. I set up the date for early next week, as I've been out of town and am not free this week or the weekend. I gave her my number for the date just in case, and she put it into her google schedule.

Three days later, she's texted / called pretty much every day trying to chat. Gents, is there anyway to cool her off without outright ignoring her?

Attempt 1: I waited a few hours to respond, told her I'm tied up with work and that she could call me sometime.

Attempt 2: She texted me the next day, I dry texted her for a few messages, then left the conversation with her having the last text.

Attempt 3: She calls me 12 hours later to talk, I talk to her for about 5 minutes and get off the phone to tend to life.

Our date is still five days away. I forsee this burning out either way. More importantly, why do some chicks feel the need to be in contact incessantly?
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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grayclif

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She has high interest, she's thinking about you constantly and just wants to talk. I don't see any harm in chatting her up a bit but keep it real short.

This happens when you set a date too far into the future. I try to set my date within the next 3 or 4 days. If I get the feeling that it may be longer I'll postpone asking her until I can be in that 3 or 4 day window.

In the meantime I do keep in touch with a jokey text or meme. Keeping everything fun yet short. I avoid phone calls altogether.
 

EyeBRollin

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She has high interest, she's thinking about you constantly and just wants to talk. I don't see any harm in chatting her up a bit but keep it real short.
As in... initiate?

This happens when you set a date too far into the future. I try to set my date within the next 3 or 4 days. If I get the feeling that it may be longer I'll postpone asking her until I can be in that 3 or 4 day window.

In the meantime I do keep in touch with a jokey text or meme. Keeping everything fun yet short. I avoid phone calls altogether.
Definitely agreed. It's tough for me because I get busy with work and traveling for work. I really only have time for people who schedule things 4-8 days out.

Phone calls seem to hold them over for a few days in my experience. Texting gets lame real quick.
 

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Chicks love to text so you must learn their language. They basically just want to see something in their notification bar. But don't text "hey" or "what's up", though if interest is super high it doesn't hurt.

However they usually text first with a "hey" or "babe" or something like that and i usually say "hey" right back at them to let them get the convo started. I'll comment on what theyre talking about and if I can find something funny in it I'll tease them. A little more chit chat and I'll leave it. I won't say goodbye cause they know I'm busy.
 

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Toss her a bone...it will even make her more interested. Talk to her for a few minutes, then let her know you have to get going and look forward to seeing her on whatever day you planned...this has first date bang potential written all over it
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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