LOL that was the standout for me... Your girlfriend only kisses closed-mouth? What? WHAT?Commandante said:I hope you know that this sounds weird...
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.
LOL that was the standout for me... Your girlfriend only kisses closed-mouth? What? WHAT?Commandante said:I hope you know that this sounds weird...
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
drak_ool said:Look, my current girl is really hot. Whenever I leave her for a min a guy approaches her. I'm not even talking about clubs, where I can't go to the bathroom without 5 guys going up to her in the meantime. However, I've never seen her straight out flirt with any of these guys. In fact she always gives me the "please come save me from these creeps" look every time i get back to her, which I do by entering the convo and marking my territory in a subtle, humorous way.
LittleRiverBand said:I have a question for guys who've done a lot of dating/LTRs. Is this type of game playing, one upsmanship necessary with a 6 or 7 (a 6 or 7 that isn't self-absorbed and doesn't act like a 10) or is only with the AW type of hotter girls and the OP is a little out of his league?
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.
Great Insight into one of the hidden agenda's of the Rocka.PSYCHO said:You denied your masculinity by not correcting her unfeminine hor dress and action! So of course you feel bad - you not only did not correct her, but you allowed yourself to outright deny your own masculinity - because you caved in to your wrong thinking and went along with THE MATRIX thinking of not correcting a hor!!! "I don't want to appear jealous" thinking, is part of the feminist hor agenda of weakening the male and making the hor superior! to the male - it's an usurpation of power!! Only corrupt dumbasses don't see this agenda!
The Matrix (The LIE) thinking, is one who accepts the hor as natural, and thus feminine!
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.
The GF who kisses closed-mouth is not a woman. It´s a child. Doesn´t matter how old she is. And now she is turning to a real woman, maybe influenced by the b!tchy friend of her.handle said:LOL that was the standout for me... Your girlfriend only kisses closed-mouth? What? WHAT?
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.
Nice post - But sometimes guys are too in the zone to approach another girl, when they see there GF disapear with some other dude for a smoke (wink, wink).Robert28 said:ive been in situations like this MANY times before. i even acted very similarly to the way you acted and forgave her the next day after her sob story. i'm still learning, but here's what i would now do had i been in your situation that night. forget the dress, forget her stupid friend tagging along, forget all that jazz. the moment she paid no attention to me when we were dacing, i would have walked away. not pouting or going to sit in a corner and suck my thumb, but to scan for other single chicks in the place. then i would make my way over to where they were and let the good times roll! let her go smoke with other guys and hang around with her skank friend who seems to be headed towards loserville. the moment my g/f walked up to me with the wtf look on her face, i would have smiled and said "hey(insert name here)! these are my friend(s) (insert name of girl(s) here)" i PROMISE you she wont leave your side the rest of the night(if she truly cares about you). it doesnt matter if Mary falls down and breaks her leg, your g/f is still going to stay by your side like shes joined at the hip because she learned her short lesson about leaving you alone. it shows her if she can go have her fun, you can too. girls are jealous people by nature. they HATE competition. she'll even wonder why you didnt introduce her to your new friends as your girlfriend. which you later tell her, well you sure werent acting like my g/f. ive done this and it WORKS. like a charm! now, youre way of handling it only pushes her to other guys that are there having a good time like she wants to have. so make the most of it, you have fun too! life is too short to be worrying over some broad that wants you to sit there waiting on her while she goes flaunting her stuff all over the club. shes not the only chick in the world, and i bet you everything i own there were 10 hotter girls there that night then her. go be friends with those! youve got to worry about YOU first and HER second, otherwise youre going to be misserable. i also wouldnt buy her little story she told you. cry me a river is what id say to her. heck, i probably would have dumped her that very next day.
You do not need to 'talk' about this any more .She knows your feelings on the matter.Guoy Darko said:But should I bring it up again? We had a talk the next morning and I sorta forgave her there, but after giving it a good thought it still bothers me. I mean, even when I'm not in the club with her, I don't want her to go talk to random guys for cigarettes and attention. I mean, ****! :nono:
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.