Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.

You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.

The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.

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Was Valentine’s Day this year out of the ordinary to you?

Clockwerk50

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On social media, there were a bunch of couples coming out to the world saying they were together. The restaurants were also packed. It was the first time in a while that I remember people actually “celebrating it.”

Outside of social media, I had three women I hadn’t spoken to in ages pop back up by letting me know they were available, two by saying they were “separating,” and another by telling me that someone we knew had died. Don’t get it twisted, these are not high-quality women, but as you know, this is their format for breaking up and getting into new relationships. There were also some women who where not with anyone hang out with themselves last Saturday; they called it Galentines.

Anyway, did you notice anything odd this weekend?
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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Scaramouche

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Hi Clockwerk,
Very much a cultural thing...great way to rekindle or keep an old relationship simmering...Aged and decrepid as I am I sent three and received one LOL.
 

Augustus_McCrae

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On social media, there were a bunch of couples coming out to the world saying they were together. The restaurants were also packed. It was the first time in a while that I remember people actually “celebrating it.”

Outside of social media, I had three women I hadn’t spoken to in ages pop back up by letting me know they were available, two by saying they were “separating,” and another by telling me that someone we knew had died. Don’t get it twisted, these are not high-quality women, but as you know, this is their format for breaking up and getting into new relationships. There were also some women who where not with anyone hang out with themselves last Saturday; they called it Galentines.

Anyway, did you notice anything odd this weekend?
I typically make reservations at a restaurant weeks ahead of time. However, this year, almost every restaurant I contacted was already fully booked. So perhaps an indication of more people celebrating.

-Augustus-
 

"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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Prepostereax

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I took my lady to the V-Day premiere of the latest incarnation of that ultimate bodice-ripper, Wuthering Heights.

What I enjoyed most was playing "spot the tropes". This film is chock full of them!

Bad boy gets Oneitis for Stacy, who monkeybranches to a textbook beta simp provider.
Tyronelite gets blackpilled and goes off to statusmax, returning reborn as Chadcliff.
Stacy becomes Alpha Widowed on realising that her hypergamy has cost her soul.
To rub this in, Chadcliff seduces her bestie Becky in a supreme display of frame control and Dread game.
Stacy dies of a miscarriage and Chadcliff never gets over his Oneitis.

What was even more fascinating than the movie, was the audience.
Naturally, there were plenty of couples celebrating the occasion, including us.

There were also some women who where not with anyone hang out with themselves last Saturday; they called it Galentines.
I didn't know this was a thing until that weekend.
Most of the moviegoers that night consisted of flocks of nubile twentysomethings (mostly around 7's). They were in groups of 3-6, and many of them full into the V-Day theme, carrying flowers, drinking champagne (which the venue thoughtfully provided for sale)
A single guy with cojones could really do well that evening.

Clearly this version of the movie knew its target audience.
The screening we attended actually got applause at curtain.
I wonder whose job it was to clean the seats.
 

MatureDJ

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I'm almost always single for V-Day, but it seems that right after V-Day is when I do the best. It must be that the gal didn't achieve her goal of having a man on V-Day, and so she was really motivated to get one thereafter. :rolleyes:
 
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