You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?
Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.
One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.
Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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.
Thats probably women speak for "I really WISH my new man made me happy, I'm really TRYING to be happy but...."Jariel said:"My new man makes me so happy"..
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.
I think it's a bad mindset your in. To think that any girl that finds some guy she wants to be with will automatically cheat on him because he does nice sh1t for her.CasanovaFrankenstein said:I think the prevailing school of thought on that in the community is that she marries the AFC for security (he'll be a provider, father for her kids, etc) and she'll most likely have a fvck buddy on the side. The way I understand it Jariel, if hubby doesn't make her earn that kind of treatment she'll start to take him for granted. She may stay with him for the security and just cheat on him. Sounds like your ex fvck buddy might have just found herself a nice chump to use. Who knows, you might be the guy she wants to cheat with!
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.
I think that's the type of F'd up attitude that is preventing people from getting anything more than a one night stand. I think in any healthy relationship you should be able to tell "her" you love "her."Aaron B said:one reason is because there aren't enough real men to go around and women have a strong desire to get married
Women have a completely different thought process than we do and when we project our idea and our thought process onto their action it seems confusing. I start with the notion that what she has done makes sense to her on at least some level and try to backwards-engineer it from there.
and for the record, I always had relationships when I was a young AFC. I even had the upper hand early on when the girls were young and I had a strong bad boy image. I did the typical AFC stuff of taking her to dinner, buying her flowers, telling her I loved her etc. By the time I married my first wife I had gone from being in control of the relationship for the first year or so to her having the power and running the show. In my experience, the only thing worse than being an AFC who can't get girls is being an AFC who can get girls but allows them to run his life.
My apologies, I should have been more specific.joverby said:I think that's the type of F'd up attitude that is preventing people from getting anything more than a one night stand. I think in any healthy relationship you should be able to tell "her" you love "her."
That seems really messed up to me to consider that AFC. I believe you could get AFC with it by saying it ALL the time or using it to fill voids in silence. My EX initiated the "I love you" way more than I did, but I still said it first sometimes.
This.f283000 said:First of all the premise of this thread is wrong. It somehow makes it seem as if women marrying afc's makes being a dj somehow bad. It also assumes that marriage is good and that is debatable. Has it ever crossed your mind that some dj's just don't want to be married? Has it crossed your mind that these same women that marry afc's already banged dozens of jerks/bad boys/jocks when these women were young and hot, and when they finally are ready to settle down/getting older and uglier then they look for afcs?
Women marry afc's because their biological clock is ticking and they are under pressure to settle down with a guy that they can control. Women have a super fear of loneliness and their fertility only lasts a limited time.
Women want a guy that's stable and can settle down with which is not a DJ who is out to have fun, adventure and live life to the fullest. Women at this state are already past banging jerk after jerk in their younger years. The same women who marry afc's wouldn't even give an afc a hand when they were in their prime of their beauty. Now that they're getting old and their biological clock is ticking they are in a hurry to marry some poor afc.
The afc is more than happy to be getting the sloppy seconds or in most cases sloppy dozens or whatever many guys these broads have already banged by the time they decide it's time to settle down.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Great points and I think there's a lot of truth to this.f283000 said:Women marry afc's because their biological clock is ticking and they are under pressure to settle down with a guy that they can control. Women have a super fear of loneliness and their fertility only lasts a limited time.
Women want a guy that's stable and can settle down with which is not a DJ who is out to have fun, adventure and live life to the fullest. Women at this state are already past banging jerk after jerk in their younger years. The same women who marry afc's wouldn't even give an afc a hand when they were in their prime of their beauty.
its not an either/orst_99 said:So women want to marry guys they can control? There is probably some truth to that but ultimately that doesn't sound like it would be their idea of a fairy tale relationship. Maybe they are realistic and give up on the idea of being with the DJ who "loves" only her.
This sounds a lot like Tom Leykis man. So very true.f283000 said:First of all the premise of this thread is wrong. It somehow makes it seem as if women marrying afc's makes being a dj somehow bad. It also assumes that marriage is good and that is debatable. Has it ever crossed your mind that some dj's just don't want to be married? Has it crossed your mind that these same women that marry afc's already banged dozens of jerks/bad boys/jocks when these women were young and hot, and when they finally are ready to settle down/getting older and uglier then they look for afcs?
Women marry afc's because their biological clock is ticking and they are under pressure to settle down with a guy that they can control. Women have a super fear of loneliness and their fertility only lasts a limited time.
Women want a guy that's stable and can settle down with which is not a DJ who is out to have fun, adventure and live life to the fullest. Women at this state are already past banging jerk after jerk in their younger years. The same women who marry afc's wouldn't even give an afc a hand when they were in their prime of their beauty. Now that they're getting old and their biological clock is ticking they are in a hurry to marry some poor afc.
The afc is more than happy to be getting the sloppy seconds or in most cases sloppy dozens or whatever many guys these broads have already banged by the time they decide it's time to settle down.
It's a big great cycle in a way when you think about it:Although I would've liked to be in a relationship with her, I would rather be the guy she wants to fvck her like an animal, pull her hair and cvm on her t!ts, than the guy who does her housework for her and buys her flowers.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.