Shut the fvck up if you dont know what you are talking about!Friendly Otter said:or in Eastern Europe it seems. Only in the West.
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.
Shut the fvck up if you dont know what you are talking about!Friendly Otter said:or in Eastern Europe it seems. Only in the West.
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.
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.
You didnt get it did you??Friendly Otter said:Look at this guys, Tavii was soo upset he had to send me - eep! - a red dot! That oughtta show me. He writes: "You are an ignorant, talkin about what you dont know!"
Ah, such splendid rhetoric! What a hard-hitting argument. See guys, this is exactly what I am talking about. Tavii here has learned what words to use: "ignorant" is one of them. No need for argument, he just uses the Politically Correct words intended to silence all debate. I bet if he were a moderator I'd be banned by now for being "ignorant."
This only goes on in the West. Well, there are individuals who hate the word "white" that much outside the West too, but I am telling you, most non-Westerners are way more relaxed about race. They don't have our media owners or Hollywood, pushing words like "racist" and "ignorant" down our throats.