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.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around 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.
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.
Same here, not making the most out of opportunities. Waiting for things to be too perfect. I'm not great at day game, but I can handle my own when it's one on one. Opening a group of chicks during the day, while they're all sitting at a table in their own conversation.....I've done it, but can't on a whim. I'm lost usually.Don_Dom said:Biggest actual weakness with game and otherwise....Complacency.
Went out last night and ran into some people I haven't seen in a while. Wound up drinking too much, which is fine, but was getting looks from the two cutest girls in the place we went to late and just didn't have it in me to go talk to them. Part being drunk, part being into the conversation, part just being lazy. Which is fine, but it's a bad habit to get into. One of my new years resolutions was to make approaches when invited like this habitual and to start spinning plates again. No bueno.
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.
This is close to my own. I feel far more at ease with girls messaging me and showing IOIs at the very least. Obviously dates and further is better but that would be the minimum I would be at ease with.noheroes said:Feeling lost without at least a couple revolving girls in the harem. A man should be deeply satisfied with his life (not complacent, though) regardless of the lady situation.