"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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what if u lost ur girlfriend and ur friends?

Jay-X

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what if ur girlfriend cheated on you with a friend of yours, makin' u lose all your friends?
 

"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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The truth in life is that we are all replaceable and some things don't last forever.

Instead of being afraid to lose, embrace the nature of change and go after new friends and hos yourself.

The worst thing you can do is to remind yourself of a failed relationship and use that as an indicator of your value as a man.
 

DJDamage

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Part of having the title "friend" is making sure that you have some respect and responsibility for the well being of another. If you disrespect someone and your actions end up hurting someone then you are not a friend. Friends should celebrate life with you and not bring you down.

I say good riddance. Kick the girl and the guy out of your life because its obviously they don't care about you and they have broken the trust that was established between the three of you.
 

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and besides, you, me..

we can make loads of friends, new, beter friends that we can trust and count on, and being a true up and coming DON JAUN, learning, reading the dj bible, attending boot camp, we can learn to be what we want to be..
 

Francisco d'Anconia

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Sounds like she wasn't really your girlfriend and those guys were not truly your friends. Don't waste your time feeling sorry about yourself. Take a moment to think about you you you will do things differently next time and then go out and get a real girlfriend and some real friends. You're probably better off without the lot of them...
 

"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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Jay-X

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this has not happen, it's just my fear, 'cuz a friend of mine stole another friend of mine's girlfriend, then this other guy stole mine... now, i'm really scared that another one of my friends is going to steal my new girlfriend... what can i do to prevent this from happenin'?
 

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WTF, how can you call them friends if you cant trust them?

My friends know that their girlfriends are like guys to me, and so is my girlfriend to my real friends.
 

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if you want to prevent this then ditch the people who go behind your back man.. an i would kick the crap out of a guy who did that to me!!
 

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i'm very thankful for ur advice, but consider this:

1. i like my friends very much and i don't wanna lose'em
2. in italy, unfortunately, almost everybody is this way... it's a really common thing to steal someone else's girlfriend.

i know it's fùcked up (i can't even think of a friend's girlfriend in a sexual way, it just makes me sick), but what can i do?
 

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Originally posted by CharmaLeo
The truth in life is that we are all replaceable and some things don't last forever.

Instead of being afraid to lose, embrace the nature of change and go after new friends and hos yourself.

The worst thing you can do is to remind yourself of a failed relationship and use that as an indicator of your value as a man.
Well put.
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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