Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.

You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.

The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.

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The most funny thing is she told me I need to stop doing all those things because it ruins me being a "nice guy". And she does those things more than I do.

I should have told her to stop smoking and drinking, since it turns her into a slut and ruins her being a nice girl.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

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.

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My Name is Nobody said:
The most funny thing is she told me I need to stop doing all those things like smoking and drinking because it ruins me being a "nice guy". And she does those things just as much if not more than I do.

I should have told her to stop smoking and drinking, since it turns her into a slut and ruins her being a nice girl.
That doesn't make her to be a hor - it is her values and mindset that does this! You chose her so she is just being who she is - you knew this on the first so-called "date"!!
 
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I think what she meant I am not a "nice guy" is I wasn't a sucker and bought her stuff, paid for everything, kissed her butt, etc etc.. go find another sucker lady.
After all she didn't even have a job and lived with her parents droped out of school..

If that was us guys, we would be considered a huge loser but somehow it's acceptable if she is an attractive girl?
 

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My Name is Nobody said:
I think what she meant I am not a "nice guy" is I wasn't a sucker and bought her stuff, paid for everything, etc etc.. go find another sucker lady.
Yet he sarges a woman like this:
My Name is Nobody said:
After all she didn't even have a job and lived with her parents droped out of school..
Think the guy is setting himself up?
My Name is Nobody said:
If that was us guys, we would be considered a huge loser but somehow it's acceptable if she is an attractive girl?
This is why it's important to qualify especially after taking the path of the DJ. Why would a DJ want to sarge the same type of woman he sarged as a AFC? Madness... :crazy:

This is why you can't just "act" like a DJ, it's a lifestyle and a mindset. Basically, all of your perceptions about women needs to change in order to sidestep the majority of the madness.

Learn from the experience. Identify what went wrong. Adjust. Continue along your path.
 

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if someone is so flippy floppy this early on... do you question their interest level invested in you? do you question their interest levels in their own life?
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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I guess I was just happy to move on from the NYE chic. I still get upset thinking about that... I suppose I'm still not completely over that one.
 

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There's no difference.

Either something else is more desirable to her than meeting you - or it isn't. A woman won't let something she's more concerned with go by merely because she gave her 'word'.

If she's BSing, it's because you didn't rate highly enough in her eyes. Rate more highly next time.
God i hate that fact.... you can only beat that by having other women...LOL
 
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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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What if she couldn't afford the food, what if she didn't know what to get, what if she wanted you guys to go together to get the food, what if she was afraid it would spoil by the time she brought it over, what if she didn't want to carry it, what if she wanted you to surprise her with what you were cooking instead.

So what if she didnt' bring some food, at least she showed up. It sounds like you are more upset you had to pay for the food and cook for her rather than her going back on her word.
women get too many damn what ifs ..... We dont get that many at all ,... screw up some psycho dating rule bull**** and we are out.
 

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Here's some warning signs to look for...

1. Superficial charm and good intelligence
2. Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
3. Absence of nervousness or psychoneurotic manifestations
4. Unreliability
5. Untruthfulness and insincerity
6. Lack of remorse and shame
7. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
8. Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
9. Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
10. General poverty in major affective reactions
11. Specific loss of insight
12. Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
13. Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink and sometimes without
14. Suicide rarely carried out
15. Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
16. Failure to follow any life plan
Wow that sounds like your average human living in a capitalist society....LOL
 

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Young women in 2008 have very little respect for men... cause they dont need to.
That's what I was getting at.
 

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Wow that sounds like your average human living in a capitalist society....LOL
And what does Capitalism have to do with it? :woo:
 

"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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DonGorgon said:
All those symptoms tend to represent in humans living under excessively capitalist societal conditions. and the sad assumption is that more money will make everything okay...
That's not Capitalism. That's what people who don't have the means that they would like call Capitalism. Capitalism isn't about money, it's about production; money is just a byproduct. A person's seeming dependence on money is something completely different.
 

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edit: sorry, I didn't read everything in the post

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My ex was just the same way, get out while you can, she'll keep breaking her promises I CERTAIN of it. Don't start a relationship with people like this, befriending them is ok, just don't date them, cause you'll end up frustrated by it, dump her and feel hurt yourself by doing so.
 

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...Don't start a relationship with people like this, befriending them is ok, just don't date them, cause you'll end up frustrated by it, dump her and feel hurt yourself by doing so.
But what exactly does befriending them mean? Sounds like you'd be tapping into an emotional line that would suck the life out of you. Guys can't seem to tell ahead of time when a woman is just using them as a means to build themselves up. The guy reads too much into it and ends up in that bad place and ultimately creates a thread b1tching about it to the rest of us; all because he couldn't completely walk away. Befriending sounds "nice" but way too often it requires the guy sacrificing himself.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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