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.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
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.
^^^^This.Mauser96 said:Fisrt of all, we need to distinguish something:
There is a HUGE difference in risk/reward when:
a) Dating a single mother with a career who pays her own bills and has a good job who became one by being married to the same man for 10 years, both kids are his, and things didn't work out - maybe through no fault of hers and
b) Single mother, aged 23, Grade 10 education, works part-time as a cleaner at an office building while her mother watches her kids, just like her mother before her did, 3 kids, 3 different fathers, never a relationship involved,.
Those are two VASTLY different scenarios.
My dad did the same thing when me and my sister were in high school. Married a liberal woman that had been mostly single her whole. Lets just say, it's one terrible decision I will never make lol.MOTU said:^^^^This.
I am a single dad. My kids play an important role in my life. After I divorced their mother, I rebound married a woman with no kids. It created lots of problems for me as she just didn't understand that my kids come first. So, the posters above who said you will come second to her kids - you are correct. If you can't accept that, you are best to avoid the single moms all together.
The theory that the woman won't respect you because you are raising another mans kid has some merit. That's why you don't raise the kids. You can be her partner while she raises her kids, and if you are a single dad, invest in her children to the extent she invests in yours.
As Mauser points out, it's a matter of screening. They need to:
- be educated and have a career
- be financially stable and independent
- have been single for a couple of years
- have kids from only one long marriage
- be a good parent
- not have had a string of boyfriends since their divorce
My GF has an MBA, works as an office manager at a water authority, pays her own way and I am the first guy to meet her kids since she divorced 3.5 years ago. So far so good.
So is she looking for a provider? Of course, to some extent. That would be in the best interest of her kids so how could she not? But is that ALL she is looking for? Is that the most important thing? Hopefully not. Time will tell.
Mauser96 said:Fisrt of all, we need to distinguish something:
There is a HUGE difference in risk/reward when:
a) Dating a single mother with a career who pays her own bills and has a good job who became one by being married to the same man for 10 years, both kids are his, and things didn't work out - maybe through no fault of hers and
b) Single mother, aged 23, Grade 10 education, works part-time as a cleaner at an office building while her mother watches her kids, just like her mother before her did, 3 kids, 3 different fathers, never a relationship involved,.
MOTU said:As Mauser points out, it's a matter of screening. They need to:
- be educated and have a career
- be financially stable and independent
- have been single for a couple of years
- have kids from only one long marriage
- be a good parent
- not have had a string of boyfriends since their divorce