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.
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.
Alpha. He was selfless. Betas are hurt men who care only for themselves and fear everyone and everything around them to the point of paranoia.El Payaso said:Just curious.
The Dark Knight. Kind of, haha.Mauser96 said:How many movies have been made where a man gave his life for a woman? I would venture the number is dozens.
Name ONE where a woman gave her life for a man.
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.
wow, I can't think of any.Mauser96 said:Well first of all, it was romance fiction written for Hollywood, and women especially. So, it doesn't have to make sense, nor does it particularly, lol.
So, I won't say alpha or beta...........
But what is does do, is perpetuate the thinking that a man's life is worth less than a woman's, and that what he did is to be expected by society today. That doesn't make it my stance, nor right.
Tell me this?
How many movies have been made where a man gave his life for a woman? I would venture the number is dozens.
Name ONE where a woman gave her life for a man.
It is all around you boys, you just have to take off the blinders to see it.
End of soapbox.
That's most stvpid and bluepill crap I have read here since long time.Since when killing yourself for 'babe you love' is considered smart ?billtx49 said:Given the situation, he reviewed the options and made the right choice. He saved the babe he cared about even if it cost him his life. White knight ? I do not think so, takes balls to make the choice he did.
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.
There's a beta born every minute.coochieman said:Society needs more betas. Feel free to sign up.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
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.