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.
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.
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.
Agreed and once the woman is ostracized from the group, the woman is left venting to orbiters, SO or struggle with depression while attempting to form temp friendships with other women. It's very hard for a woman to re-enter a social sphere once she's been kicked out. Grudges may be forgiven, yet they're certainly not forgotten and can re-emerge if offense is retriggered.Chances are the other women in her circles have stayed away from her because she cheats, they view her as a hoe, or some other social deficiency she has.
one of three things:The type that has a lot of and only male friends because she claims she can't "relate to women".
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
I'll expand on that one. Decent women are not threatened by her. The word threatened is too broad of a term.Women are threatened by her, and so treat her like sh*t.
Depends on the situation. A woman I knew a few years ago cheated with her new man on her now ex husband. The social circle was married women and she was ostracized when they heard about her affair. She was with the new man and the group were all happily married. The only reason left is concern for their own reputation or some type of social pressure which did not include a fear that their husbands would go for the already taken cheating woman.It's actually more about jealousy than anything else.
If the hot woman is a more easily controlled, predictable type, or she has a stable boyfriend, then it doesn't seem to matter. They feel secure.
But when the girl is the promiscuous sort, the women push them out and try and keep them away from their boyfriends.
I've shagged (even girlfriended) some women like this, so I know the nature of them. But what really opened my eyes to how they interact socially was managing a group of 10 women (nearly all of which were under 23) in a close and stressful environment for nearly a year during 2015.
And trust me, they don't just ostracize a girl like that. They are downright cruel, and try to purposely lower her value as much as possible.
The problem with that is when men take notice (and they always do), the girls value naturally rises - which causes further resentment![]()
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.
She can't relate to women means she finds it hard to maintain a female friendship.Chances are the other women in her circles have stayed away from her because she cheats, they view her as a hoe and they are good women, or some other social deficiency she has.
I put the odds in favor of the first two choices…
To me, that translates to "I prefer male attention over female competition"The type that has a lot of or only male friends because she claims she can't "relate to women".
This really is a quality post. The social dynamics among women are much more subtle, much more bound up in subcontext and much more indirect than with men.She can't relate to women means she finds it hard to maintain a female friendship.
It could be a myriad of things. Women can be petty, catty, competitive, vindicative with each other. As a female, if you want female friends, you need to be able to value the other female, and navigate the female with care. If she can't relate its not a good sign in terms of her overall character.
I had a friend once tell me that she had no female friends because all of them abandoned her. One day she would simply stop hearing from them. I was astonished, and wondered how she managed to keep picking such low quality females.
Fast forward two years, a TON of passive aggressive behavior, more subtle snide comments than I could count, and sensitivity over the most meaningless things....and I abandoned her too.
People will tell you who they are. Listen.
Here's one way to look at it. Females behave the way they do because for the vast majority of human history, men went hunting while women did gathering.The type that has a lot of or only male friends because she claims she can't "relate to women".
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.