MatureDJ
Master Don Juan
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I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
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.
You sound like the guy that was the inspiration for the song, "I'm my own grandpa." :crackup:backbreaker said:i remember when i was younger, about 23 years old and i had just moved back to little rcok from florida and i went to a club downtown called the underground pub and i am in there doing my thing and i run into my step mom.
now, my step mom is closer to my age then my dad. she's 8 years older than me so at the time she was 31 (and my dad was 46). she had had one too many to drink. guys i would fvck the dog **** out of mys tep mom lol. she's like 6'1, very nice body, very beatiful woman, head turner when she walks int he room. she is all over me and she asks me to dance with her. you walk about awkard. part of me wainted to honestly rail her. my dad had just hit on my GF i was dating a few years ago and i still had issues wtih him over it i was thinking this is my one free fvck my step mom card lol. part of me was like dude you can't do this lol.
my friends were with me they were like dude. that looks just like gina (my step mom) i was like dude that IS gina lol.
she told me she would be rihgt back and you know how like when someone is touching you and they hold that hand for one second too long and slide it away, she gave me one of those. i was like oh **** lol. i dipped out lol.
i never have been able to look at her the same sense.