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.
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.
Hey it does not matter how many strikes you take. It was a 3 strike rule before the late 2008, now it's a 2 strike rule, soon it will be one. I don't ask anybody twice anymore. There is no need for that, you change, they change, circumstances change- they will come to you. I delete numbers, delete Facebook connections, delete whatever, they give it to me again when it's time- ha ha. Why should you wait around? Do they give you any reason to hold to this number? Well, than f^%ck them. The point is to make them keep your number. Ha ha Be larger than life.JPlaya said:I see yall post if a women does this little thing than delete her number lol. I'm not a nice guy, but I do believe in the three strike rule.
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.
The more I read your posts, the more i agree with them. It's a female perspective all the way. We sadly don't have that kind of self-control.mahoney said:I never delete numbers, facebooks, mails or anything. some of the dudes on here are like alcoholics that need to hide a bottle in case they see it and can't stop themselves
Also a lot of the dudes blame females for their own poor behavior
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.