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.
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.
I don't want to be rude, but I would suggest posting something about the contents of a story, instead of just a link. Making an OP with just a link is, I have to say, lazy, and will give the issue far less readers. If it is an issue worthy of discussion, then it is an issue worthy of a few bullet points in the OP. There are too many of these link-and-run threads in forums. Let's make an effort!the_stig said:
But **** **** do ******* their ******* by ******* their ***** a **** and ******** **** when ***** on * ****.LandingWood said:I'm definitely a romantic but I've never done any of that **** although I'd love to. But there's no room for ****ing up when you're trying to ****. Article is spot on
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.
All I know is, the more I look around, the less I see men treating women the way that we’re raised to. What happened to paying for dinners and drinks? What happened to pulling out chairs and holding doors? What happened to walking on the outside, closest to the street and all that sh*t? Where did we lose the chivalrous touch?
Meh no point aruging about the pastPairPlusRoyalFlush said:Modern women don't respond to chivalry and dont deserve it anyway. The real debate is whether women in the past ever did.
Nonsense.thatfeel said:I say above all be kind and gentle to all those who cross your path. My thoughts on the article are that it was probably a reflection of a deeply rooted insecurity but not necessarily serious the author surrounding decisions he's made and actions he displayed.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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.
You say that because you have been brainwashed by the leftists who run the public schools. And by feminist Hollywood TV shows. Time to wake up and learn some real history.TheODB said:Chivalry is dead is because it is an arbitrary set of social rules that emerged in a time when women were treated like high functioning children.
I think you are going to the extremes there.skinnyguy said:"if you take a girl out and show her you’re more than some douche looking to just get in her pants, odds are, you’re going to get a second date, at least. "
lol.
If you take her out to dinner you'll be seen as a pvssy. And she won't fvck you. If you don't fvck her on the first date, you're done.