"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Would you accept loveless marriage?

diplomatic_lie

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Let's imagine for a second, that we are still in imperial times. Your family wants you to marry this girl from another family in order to improve the trading relations of your two families.

The girl is pretty, 7/10, but you don't love her. Hell, you don't care for her personality. But marrying her would provide you would an enormous boost in social status, money, and prestige.

Would you accept?
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

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.

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Centaurion

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Damn right I would. But that doesn't exclude me from porking some other chicks on the side.
 

Climax

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erm....

No I would not accept. If its the money that I am in for, then I'd find myself a rich HB9 that I AM interested in. *G*:rolleyes:


Laterz...
 

Microphone Fiend

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well back then, wouldn't she be more of a servant then a wife? Soemone who cooks n cleans and stays home and what have you? Im not anti-feminist, just pondering... cuz then Id marry her and just have mistresses who I love
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

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.

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Laney

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Just treat her as a buisness partner, and make sure she gets a good deal out of it too so she doesn't complain!

So yeah! Why not!
 

"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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SexPDX

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Originally posted by diplomatic_lie
Let's imagine for a second, that we are still in imperial times.
With the above as one of the established parameters, I would say yes. At that time intended purpose of marriage was entirely different than it is now. Royalty and aristocracy married for political and economic reasons. That is simply what was done.

However, I'd have a different view of it if we were to assume it was 2005 and my life was more similar to what it really is.

-PDX
 

Aztec

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Originally posted by diplomatic_lie
Let's imagine for a second, that we are still in imperial times. Your family wants you to marry this girl from another family in order to improve the trading relations of your two families.

The girl is pretty, 7/10, but you don't love her. Hell, you don't care for her personality. But marrying her would provide you would an enormous boost in social status, money, and prestige.

Would you accept?
There's always a catch...there's always will be. :D

But just based on your data, then yeah.
 
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