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Master Don Juan
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Knowing ur the bad ass man u r....would u marry for cash...I met some girls who would. Are guys any different?
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.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Did you get some sort of sweet settlement deal out of it?Bible_Belt said:Would you marry for money?
I did. And I think I am the only divorced guy on here who does not regret getting married.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
It was more like a sweet marriage deal. Her parents own a resort hotel in the Caribbean. They paid our rent for years. I qualified for student loans due to being married, at 21 I would otherwise have not. She got a green card and vastly reduced college tuition. And they flew us down to see them at Christmas.zekko said:Did you get some sort of sweet settlement deal out of it?
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.
Bible_Belt said:Would you marry for money?
I did. And I think I am the only divorced guy on here who does not regret getting married.
I did. And I think I am the only divorced guy on here who does not regret getting married.
Lol this. The only men getting screwed over in divorce are the ones foolish enough to provide for a woman.It was more like a sweet marriage deal. Her parents own a resort hotel in the Caribbean. They paid our rent for years. I qualified for student loans due to being married, at 21 I would otherwise have not. She got a green card and vastly reduced college tuition. And they flew us down to see them at Christmas.