"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Wifey now has apps to send message to hubby that it's "fertile window" time

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https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/08/how-fertility-apps-exclude-fathers/567721
Jillian Wanner dutifully took birth-control pills for years to avoid getting pregnant by accident. When she stopped taking it, in 2016, at age 32, so she and her husband could try for a baby, she says she was a little surprised when she didn’t conceive right away.

“You spend so much time trying not to get pregnant,” she says, “and then the minute you want to get pregnant, you think it’s going to be easy, and it’s not.” So Wanner, like millions of other women trying to conceive in the age of the smartphone, downloaded a fertility app.
Ovia offers the option of signing your partner up for alert emails when your “fertile window” is approaching
my opinion: Gee, the old way of taking advantage of having children when young, and having open legs when hubby is in the mood (which should be always if wifey would just stay slim) worked pretty well. :down:
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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