"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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too many to list. Mainly my bank accounts, credit card sites, investments, netflix, company websites, and ebay.
 

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mpimpin said:
too many to list. Mainly my bank accounts, credit card sites, investments, netflix, company websites, and ebay.
I give you points

You did not bookmark any porn sites
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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I give you points

You did not bookmark any porn sites
Haha no porn sites. I don't even have SS listed. There are certain sites I don't want others to happen to come across.
 

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it's what I do.

The Mad Ghost, i spend about 14 or so hours a day online it's my job. I have alot of down time. plus most of those are just RSS'ed to my reader account so it's not like i'm on the site constantly. this site and tbc are really the only 2 sites i actually go to

It's no different than if you sold stocks, you are going to have the wall street journal, the new york times, ruteurs, msnbc, bloomburg and all the other financial sites.
This is what I do, every bit of information helps.
 

"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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Mostly programming articles, hockey news sites and random webapp pages like Grooveshark. Anything else I need to know comes through RSS.
 

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Aside from secret or scandalous websites I cannot disclose, here is an abridged sampling.

academicearth.org
blogs.discoverymagazine.com/badastronomy
fark.com
newyorktimes.com
richardwiseman.wordpress.com
roissy.wordpress.com
scienceblogs.com/pharyngula
scienceblogs.com/insolence
scientificamerican.com
scientopia.com/blogs/goodmath
skeptic.com
theabsolute.net
wired.com
 

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Rogue said:
Aside from secret or scandalous websites I cannot disclose,
You mean porn websites
 

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backbreaker said:
it's what I do. i spend about 14 or so hours a day online it's my job. .
Oh, thought you were just surfing this all in you're free time bro. I'm not innocent anyway, I have countless bookmarks to name a few.

http://mmajunkie.com/
http://community.ufc.com/
http://www.fashionbeans.com/
http://www.styleforum.net/
http://funandsocial.blogspot.com/
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/
http://us-marines.blogspot.com/
http://fightin6thmarines.vox.com/
http://www.forbes.com/
http://sinnsofattraction.blogspot.com/
 

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i literally have like a billion articles bookmarked. but here's what i have bookmarked at the top of the firefox screen for quick access

http://www.fastseduction.com
http://www.sosuave.net
http://www.kasidie.com/static/magazine/2008/10/spreader-bar.html (lol, im making one this week, so it won't be there once i make it)
http://www.t-nation.com
http://www.stronglifts.com
http://www.fallensword.com (a game i play online a couple hours a week; don't have any video game systems or tv in my house, so i play this to satisfy the kid in me.)
http://www.facebook.com
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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You mean porn sites.
Yeah like Suicide Girls and God's Girls, just because you asked, but there other websites in different nature which I cannot mention for one reason or another.
 

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I don't understand the point in bookmarking sites. I don'th ave a problem remembering what sites I go to haha.
 

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I don't understand the point in bookmarking sites. I don'th ave a problem remembering what sites I go to haha.

a little quicker then typing in address after address.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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