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.
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.
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.
Some provinces its 18 like here in albertaOriginally posted by spider_007
or you can come to CANADA it's 19 here. I'll never understand that in U.S., you can join the army and get your self killed, but you can't drink???
Whoa! Ultimately, it's your decision. If you know you won't feel regretful after this then that's A +. Maybe you can do something more constructive??? You don't really need to go far, traveling throughout the northereastern states I can tell you that the only thing that's REALLY DIFFERENT are the attitudes, manners, and style... ultimately the only common denominator is yourself and no matter what attitudes, manners, and style women in different states have, they all share the same thing in that they'll know if she wants to get laid with you or not. Come to South Beach... Women from all over the world gather here... you get to nail your goal all in one shot!Originally posted by The_Shezzler
I happen to have saved money from my job - where i have been working extensively for the past two years after leaving college