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...
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.
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...
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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?
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
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:
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.