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.
Oh, I'm sure you are waiting. You're wanting answers from me like the CIA. I've already explained it to you. I've told you that I have copied and pasted excerpts to different people in the past on here because not everybody was fond with my story. You certainly are, though. If you don't believe me, feel free to move along.
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.
Dude, you barely write in English. I've come on here for a year or more (however long it's been) venting about my insecurities about my relationship. And so far, plenty of you have said for a LONG time now that she's going to leave me and she hasn't done so yet...
Make it easy for everyone, prove that you're not a troll, and post the dates and the actual content of the post that prove that I am incorrect
I don't even know what you're asking, and I am NOT going back and posting dates of whatever you're asking. Really? I've dodged nothing and have answered your question repeatedly. If you think I'm a troll and have been lying about this for over a YEAR, you might need some help. People on here like to criticize me and call me a doormat, and what have you. What you're asking, and you playing detective is downright strange.
if you go back a page or two you will see, once again, where I recited six posts from you that clearly have you saying your baby is due in April.
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.
Oh I agree and I love the savagery.
except that this is @randalljohnson, the person who TYPED the words, at least five times, misquoting his childs due date, 5 times.
Your scheme to try to frame me as a troll has run dry. I certainly know how old my child is and if human error isn't acceptable to you, I'm sorry.
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.
I must be a real deadbeat to work more than 2x as much as most working peoppe work, and to support myself along with my 2 kids and my girlfriend in the house that I purchased.
If you don't like my posts you can freely not read my threads.
My "scheme?!
Projection at it’s best…
Yes, your scheme. That's what it seems like to me. We're going in circles when I've repeated my answer to you over and over again. So once again, if you don't believe me, please do not comment on my threads.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Don't claim that I'm projecting. If you feel similarly to her, you don't have to comment on my posts either.
Of course you are going to call it a scheme. That's the only way you can think to deflect from simply answering the question.
Why in the world would I be posting on here about my relationships for nearly TWO YEARS if it wasn't true? Exactly what satisfaction would I get out of that? I feel like you're the troll, considering I've invited you numerous times to stop commenting on my posts, yet you keep belligerently calling me a troll.
The reason you post a made up story on here is for attention
That is asinine.
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.
