You are helping me feel more positive.

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

Aspire

Don Juan

May 2, 2018

Reading your success stories on this forum make he feel better about just asking girls out or asking for their numbers point blank. Seems a lot of you have done it with success.

Obviously if she says not you move on to the next girl. I think I have up until now had this notion, at least subconsciously that it is a matter of asking the right way and if you ask the wrong way there are no second chances. But not necessarily. If I get rejected I just need to learn from any mistakes.

Thoughts?

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.