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dont be foistin beth! I'm watching for you sneaky pro-lifers! LOL
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.
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.
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.
I like you. Really.Tiguere said:Why don't I date single mothers? Because I don't want to deal with another mans garbage.
Thank u jimboBigJimbo said:I like you. Really.
My friend, what these boys have yet to learn is that sometimes the truth does hurt.Tiguere said:Thank u jimbo
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.
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.
Poonani Maker said:The single mother where the Father has custody, because she lost that battle because of her notorious track-record (jail-time/drugs), That's the kind of single mom that always has time for you, the one who has to Visit her kids. It's rare but she's there somewhere in your town, and she may be hot.
Please cite your sources for this assertion. This is common misconception and I am a lawyer.SgtSplacker said:Theres states where you can be made responsible for child support just because you were there for most of the childs upbringing whether the child was genetically yours or not, also common law marriages.
It's not her that's garbage, it's YOU. What an assh0le. You owe both of them an apology.backbreaker said:I see both sides
my mother was a single mom. and my mom is not "garbage" she has a maters degree and makes about 125k a year. My dad was just a ***** and couldn't keep his **** in his pants, and when my dad got another woman pregnant, and had my now 18 year old brother, my mom had had enough.
My mother has her quirks, but, I mean, and while, I thinks he needs improve her attitude, she's not garabe in the sense that some of you guys make it out to be.
She had no problem dating, although she didn't marry until the week after I turned 21 and was well out the house.
With that said, I agree alot with what warrior said, a woman would have to I mean really, wow the hell out of me to consider her if she had a kid. At 15-16, there wasn't a man that was going to come in the house and tell me what to do, just wasn't going to happen.While my dad is a *****, he is my dad and that was the only man I listened to. I remember one dude in particular tried to get buck with me and when I told my dad about it, after my dad was done with him he never called my mom again lol. That's some of the stuff you have to deal with, when dealing with single mom's. it's just not worth it.
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.