"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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What should I do about this nagging friend?

Zapp Brannigan

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There's a friend of mine, and we talk about pretty much everything. About three years ago I was desperate, and came to him for help about a girl. This was my first love, I had a bad case of oneitius, and ZERO experience at that point. I told him all kinds of cringe worthy details, and he gave the best advice he could.

She was already taken, but I wanted to show I cared and help my chances if she became single, so I went out of my way to talk to her for a bit after that. She seemed to like it, and came around more. I quit chasing after realizing I was on the verge of becoming an orbiter. I know now how badly handled everything was on my end. She's still with him and to this day still occasionally acts interested, but I have no idea whether or not it's sincere. Might have all been a ploy for attention, given she does have a fair share of orbiters. The lack of any real closure made me have a hard time putting the past behind me.

This friend means well, but whenever you tell him something like this, he'll unintentionally nag about it. When chasing her he'd ask how things were going, and I'd say a little bit and ask him to back off. After telling him enough to stop, he finally stopped asking on a regular basis. But still talks about her about once a year.

She's a member of a church related group, and every time he brings up the group or people from it I get worried he'll ask/talk about her. This friend works with a guy who knows the girl, he told me that but didn't go into detail about what was said, just that he knows a guy who knows her. The other day he brings up this work friend again and says how he and the guy were talking about how wild this dude who left the group years ago is. I responded by saying how it's always the types who pretend to be really clean that act the wildest, he says "I know" in a tone like he knew what I was trying to say. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but he might have thought I was hinting that about the girl. This friend already told me once when he was drunk how he thinks she's a most likely a slvt, part of me feels she might be, and my friend knows something about her that he isn't saying.

Just tired of how he won't ever let this one go. If I confront him about it he'll think something bad happened. It's none of his business, and I wish he would drop it. There's a Christmas get together the group is having on the 23rd, and I don't even want to go because he'll go with me (there's no I would be able to go without him tagging along) and he'll try to interpret what the situation is between me and this girl. He'll come up with assertions like if me and the girl talk she loves me, if we don't we hate each other. After the last get Christmas get together he was telling me how good she looked in a blue dress she was wearing, so he'll undoubtedly bring her up if he goes to the thing this year. There's also a promotion of sorts coming up where there will be a small celebration, and I'm thinking about trying to put that off by a couple months so the girl won't be there, and my friend won't be able to make assertions.

This isn't the only female he nags about either, it's like he tries to live out a life through me. What should I do about this friend? I'm tired of him asking and living in fear of him talking about s**t that happened ALMOST THREE YEARS AGO.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

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.

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Zapp Brannigan

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9JuanJuan said:
You need new friends, this friend is not at the "bro's before hoe's" level and could hurt your game.
This person will always be in my life. We've been through a lot, and they're married to a close relative. They're married and a few years older than me. I think they just miss this single life and are trying to relive it through me.

They wouldn't cheat on their wife, and if they did it would be with women I wouldn't consider. They have different taste in women.
 

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First and foremost, you need to forget about this girl you are 'orbiting', it is total wuss behaviour.
 

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If you have to have him in your life, just don't go out with him. If he brings up crap like that again, don't even acknowledge it, just move on. Don't let him pull you in his state.
 

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Start standing up for yourself! Next time he brings up that girl say "I just realized that you are in love with her!!!" He'll deny it and you keep pressing on. Everytime he brings her up, you say "Oh, that girl that you have a crush on?" He will drop the sh!t after a while.
 

"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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Zapp Brannigan

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Thanks for the advice guys. If he tries to pull any of this crap again I'll think of a good response.
 

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do like I do when a guy say something he shouldn't, say nothing ignore it and move on, I sometime shake my head like, its getting old, eventually he willmove on, or in just be blunt and say, dude I don't care about her I find a better looking chick around who is avaiable.

also maybe you are not really in a good frame right now if he can even question you, maybe you still think on that girl
 

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"If you want her so badly then here's her number." Then give it to him.

Bros before hoes test.
 
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