"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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What would you guys do in my situation (about rejection)

BannedGod

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It's the thrid time that I try to set a date with this girl, but everytime she finds an excuse not too (homework, tired, don't remember the first one) and everytime she never said something like: "oh but tomorrow it should be alright"

so I've trimmed down my options into three possibilities, and please tell me which one of them I should pick, or if you don't like any of them, suggest me something good

1) Keep trying for a little while
2) Keep talking to her but stop trying for a few weeks
3) Stop talking to her completly and let her come to me if she cares at all
4) None of the above (make your suggestions ^^)
 

"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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Raptured Phoenix

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you know what you should do?


Next her.
 

Trapper

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Stop talking to her completly and let her come to me if she cares at all
 

"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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diablo

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DJ Tips are for giving tips, not asking for them. Please read the description of each section before making future posts. Thanks.

Moved to DJD.
 
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