Francisco d'Anconia
Master Don Juan
:crackup:Create Reality said:Thanks for appealing to my ego. I'll get my coat.
You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?
Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.
One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.
Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
:crackup:Create Reality said:Thanks for appealing to my ego. I'll get my coat.
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.
Well I don't say women can't be logical when they want to be. I'm just saying they have no use for logic when it comes to actually dealing with a real life man, because if they used true logic women couldn't justify all their crap and BS so they resort ot false logic. I'm just saying logic, fairplay and integrity isn't what women prefer to aspire to.iqqi said:LOL, I like Lexie.
Be careful with that logic, girl, they might start thinking YOU are a man, too!!
No more miss nice Lexie, this is fun....
iqqi said:LOL, I like Lexie.
Be careful with that logic, girl, they might start thinking YOU are a man, too!!
No more miss nice Lexie, this is fun....
What a crock of shiit. I guess anything to make vacuuming, cooking and changing diapers appear more challenging and important than holding down an actual job and keeping the house and car from falling apart.LovelyLady said:2. "A man works from rise to set of Sun, a woman's work is never done".
Our culture values work that can be completed, pointed at as a finished product.
Traditionally, men's work has a stopping point. They can say after building a deck, "look at my completed job" and their wives/society says "Damn you're good". (Which of course he IS LOL) And a year later, that deck is still there and he can still point to it as an accomplishment/valid contribution. It maintains it's perceived value due to it's longevity/usefullness.
Traditonal woman's work/homemaking - laundry for example: She spends hours and hours of her life doing her family's laundry. While putting it all away in the drawers, feeling content that everyone will be okay for the next week because everything is ready for them, another dirty towel is going down the laundry chute.
There is no finished moment, there is most often not even a "thank you" in her entire lifetime from any family member who has been on the receiving end of her work. There is no finished moment to create opportunity for acknowlegdement for the job well-done - because it never is done.
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.
Maybe we can offer Lexie some advice after all...Lexie said:I'm not being mean...I'm just not going to sit by and listen while someone insults me.