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.
He can do it. Like if he's fat or and not dressing well and taking good care of himself. She will see him later after he gets it together and be like "wow, I didn't know you looked this sharp". Sometimes it happens like that. But it is a waste of time to try wait around for this.
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.
Back off. Let her come to you in her own time. "Her own time" may be never. So get and stay busy with your life.
The point is there is nothing you can do to turn this around, be the best you can be... but you should be doing this anyway. She has to, on her own see you in a different light, if she changes her mind, well.... that 's on her. But why waste your time on stuff like this. Have women 'changed their minds' about me, sure, but it is NOTHING I did different, usually it's something else beyond my control, a dude that she was interested in disappeared, or something in her life changed and NOW she thinks I fit a particular need..... It's much easier just going after other women.
Your right RangerMike. Sometimes you have to do NOTHING. It's all about the hamster wheel in her brain and what makes sense to her. No sense of waiting around for it though. One of the best things you can do with an ex or low interest "girl" is to live your life well and spend time with OTHER women. Many of them all of a sudden get interested.