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.
)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.
Jair213 said:me, not close till i say it is ;D
hb, Wrong!!!... I have the last say. I thought u knew. Ha!!..
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ussualy on stuuff like this do u guys come off as witty?
can yall give me examples
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thanks.wataf said:Well its hard to say without knowing how you met her, how many times you've hung out, if youve ****ed, and how you usually talk to her in real life you can't magically try to act ****y and funny in text if youre a dweeb in real life but heres a couple lines that may help
If shes blonde i'd drop a line like "You blondes always think you know everything!"
Or drop a classic line i used to use in my pof days but transferred into real life texting and pick up "You scorpios (or whatever sign she is) are always trouble
Some people don't like the winks or ! in text but its always worked for me
Lmao brah!Jair213 said:
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.
He's probably just practicing his approaches. Something wrong with that?omega05 said: