"You have competition"

"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.

MisterD

Senior Don Juan

Feb 29, 2012

yeah. coming out and announcing she has options just reeks of desperation and insecurity.

just like we're taught here to portray through actions that we're high quality men with multiple prospects, we dont actually tell the girls we're dating "you know, i'm a high quality man and i'm dating several girls. hot ones too!"

that wont exactly increase the humidity of their crotch region

there's several ways to respond to it, as some have listed in here, and i think your answer was fine. pretty much anything that conveys to her you're not taking what she said seriously should do the trick.

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.