Maximus Optimus
Banned
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2021
- Messages
- 130
- Reaction score
- 77
- Age
- 45
Which site do you think is best or where you have had the most success?
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.
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.
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.
Makes sense. I'd been wondering why my results were so much better on Hinge.Hinge is the only one worthwhile in my area.
Important to note again: The Match Group owns POF,Tinder, OKC, Match so they are all run by a predominantly female board of directors and thus do not favor males in the OLD process. Both Match Group and Bumble are publically traded companies that will do anything to bolster their bottom line at the expense of thirsty/desperate males.
Hinge is a separate company that works off a different matching algorithm that better favors the males vs other apps. Plus it only allows males/females to "like" a very limited number of people per day. This filters and reduces the amount of options presented to females at any given time, leading to better organization and more focus and communication.
The Match group DO own Hinge as well as Plenty Of Fish, OKCupid and Tinder.Hinge is the only one worthwhile in my area.
Important to note again: The Match Group owns POF,Tinder, OKC, Match so they are all run by a predominantly female board of directors and thus do not favor males in the OLD process. Both Match Group and Bumble are publically traded companies that will do anything to bolster their bottom line at the expense of thirsty/desperate males.
Hinge is a separate company that works off a different matching algorithm that better favors the males vs other apps. Plus it only allows males/females to "like" a very limited number of people per day. This filters and reduces the amount of options presented to females at any given time, leading to better organization and more focus and communication.
Hinge is the only one worthwhile in my area.
Important to note again: The Match Group owns POF,Tinder, OKC, Match so they are all run by a predominantly female board of directors and thus do not favor males in the OLD process. Both Match Group and Bumble are publically traded companies that will do anything to bolster their bottom line at the expense of thirsty/desperate males.
Hinge is a separate company that works off a different matching algorithm that better favors the males vs other apps. Plus it only allows males/females to "like" a very limited number of people per day. This filters and reduces the amount of options presented to females at any given time, leading to better organization and more focus and communication.
The looks part matters more than the size of the metro area. If you're not a top 10% man in a big city, you're wasting time. I'd argue that smaller towns might be a little bit better for swipe apps since smaller town women do not have the absurd numbers of choices that big city women have.Dating apps only make sense if you are living in a big city and look like the rock . Otherwise you will be waisting time .
live in a smaller town and can confirm this is not the case ended up deleting everything after a fortnight complete waste of time , even if chicks in smaller towns don't have the options they seem to firmly believe they deserve them and will just mess around until they actually want sexThe looks part matters more than the size of the metro area. If you're not a top 10% man in a big city, you're wasting time. I'd argue that smaller towns might be a little bit better for swipe apps since smaller town women do not have the absurd numbers of choices that big city women have.
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.
I stand corrected. I guess Match Group took over a 51% stake in Hinge since 2018. I haven't really kept up with acquisitions over time for this company.The Match group DO own Hinge as well as Plenty Of Fish, OKCupid and Tinder.
FaceTime before the meetup. I’ve had girls insist on that.Here and there you might catch a good one. This also happened. But it's not worth the investment.
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.