"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
what's the m ost AFC thing you have ever witnessed firsthand?
- Thread starter backbreaker
- Start date
"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.
Desdinova
Master Don Juan
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This guy would constantly phone my woman and threaten suicide. She'd ask him if there was anything she could do to help him kill himself. :crackup:
Last time she heard from him, he apparently had one of his testicles removed because of cancer. I guess he was looking for pity.
I'm not attracted to people with dark skin. Does that make me racist?
I don't even like tans too much.
I don't like too pale either though. Do i hate red haired people?
Kalel21
Don Juan
This is ofcourse before I became a learning PUA.
The Nice Guy is Gone
Senior Don Juan
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And, I'm smiling a whole lot more. Not only does it make you look better, it makes you FEEL better. Just by smiling.
"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
tryin 2 play
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We were both 18 years old. She was veryyyy dramatic I think due to her up bringing. One night I was out with some freinds and on the phone with her. We were arguing and she got hysterical for no reason at all. Her mom then says tell him to get over here now or I will break you 2 up. I left my friends and went!! If that happened now I would say tell your mom to fvck herself.
She got sick one night. I went to her house at 1 in the morning because she called me. I had to be up the next morning at 6 and she knew this! I drove home at 2 to get 4 hours of sleep. We broke up about 1 month later!! I have learned now though and will never let that sh!t happen again.
That's great. I'm not terribly attracted to girls with dark skin or tans either.
I'm not even gonna get into the ins and outs of this. Trust me, he's racist.
But anyway, I think he got into some trouble over this, again. This time, the girl that works there called off the other day. He punched her in when she was supposed to start, and punched her out when she was supposed to be done. The owner came in and decided to watch the tapes (totally random), and noticed that she wasn't there on the tape. He questioned the guy about this and he just went, "Uhh... uhh....uhh....". Then the other manager got in his face and asked him if he was "obsessed with her, or in love with her", and he literally went limp. :crackup:
I missed the time when her father came in and told him to stay away from her. I heard he was a wreck.
chancer
Senior Don Juan
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.