"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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Txt messages..

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I get this one alot in txt form "Hey whats up?"
I don't want to say "nothing much u?" coz thats an AFC move. I dont know too many responses besides "I will txt u l8r. Im playing w/ my star wars action figures right now"

any ideas?
 

“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 can send text messages telling people you're skydiving or having rampant sex with a Victoria's Secret Model if you want to, but it won't stop you from being an AFC if in reality you're just jerking to porn.

So, if you're always telling people you're not doing much, you need to start doing something with your time.
 

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noirsake said:
I get this one alot in txt form "Hey whats up?"
I don't want to say "nothing much u?" coz thats an AFC move. I dont know too many responses besides "I will txt u l8r. Im playing w/ my star wars action figures right now"

any ideas?
There was a girl I was recently talking to who kept sending me late night text messages. I told her to stop sending them and call me to have a real conversation when she's ready. I think txting back and forth is lame. If you're going to send a message to someone's phone why not just call them and say it?

Only time I use it is sending someone directions, or maybe just a quick thing that needs no answer like "hope you're having a good day!" or something like that. But a back and forth conversation, why bother?
 

Dannyrt34

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Oh man, i hate texts. In fact, i dislike talking on the phone completely. Face to face contact is the only way to go.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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Jariel

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I have no problem with texts. I don't have the time to talk on the phone all the time or go and meet up with them, so texts are easy to read and send when I'm not so busy.
 

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Check out my post on text messages here. It has a lot of opinions from many of the board's top posters.
 

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noirsake said:
I get this one alot in txt form "Hey whats up?"
I don't want to say "nothing much u?" coz thats an AFC move. I dont know too many responses besides "I will txt u l8r. Im playing w/ my star wars action figures right now"

any ideas?
The less you write, the more power you have. Give her something like "wanna do somthng wednesdy" or "movie tuesday?". Don't send her a long message because you'll look like a dork. Keep it simple and feel free to make as many spelling mistakes as you want... cuz it implies that you don't care that much.
 

"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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speakeasy said:
There was a girl I was recently talking to who kept sending me late night text messages. I told her to stop sending them and call me to have a real conversation when she's ready. I think txting back and forth is lame. If you're going to send a message to someone's phone why not just call them and say it?

Only time I use it is sending someone directions, or maybe just a quick thing that needs no answer like "hope you're having a good day!" or something like that. But a back and forth conversation, why bother?
I strongly agree, I never have text message conversations. One of my friends texted for over an hour confirming a date with a girl that he had planned on seeing that night, but the longer he texted, the more the girl became uninterested and started to make up BS excuses that she had a headache.

My opinion, if he had called her and talked for 2-3 minutes he would have avoided her cold feet and flakines.

I prefer real conversations on the phone and only use text messages when it's late at night or early morning, to send messages that need to be written down (addresses, phone numbers, directions, and quick messages, or alternate to leaving a voicemail)

Plus text messages can add up and cost mucho $$$
 
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