"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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Where did I go wrong?

sandman007

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Buddha_Mind said:
Losing someone a woman loves to a fatal accident might make her afraid to feel certain emotions again.

You nailed it Buddha. She sent an email saying she was sorry for not contacting sooner but she was having a really hard time due to the holidays (our last date was just before Thanksgiving) and needed more time to deal with her loss. She said it wasn't anything I did or didn't do, just what had happened with her man. Now, I have already been out with another girl and working on a couple others as we speak but I really felt a connection with this one and would like to see her again. Any suggestions on how to convey to her that I would like to resume seeing her in the future when she is ready without coming off like a complete AFC who is gonna put his life on hold?
 

"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.

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