"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.
You know you are an AFC when......
- Thread starter backbreaker
- Start date
"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.
When she tells a guy she has an STD (afterwards) and he "supports" her.
He calls the doctor for her (regarding the STD).
He pays her traffic tickets for her.
He asks her about a intimate experience with another guy.
She answers and he listens thinking its getting him somewhere.
She gets mad/angry/brutal and he tells himself its his fault.
She is suspected of banging the entire team and he tells himself she is different.
She banged the entire team and when confronted he believes she will be different.
She swallows for the bad boys but he's okay when she doesn't do it for him.
He writes poems - lots of poems.
He tells her he loves her before they've even kissed.
She goes to Cancun with a guy *friend* while he agrees to take her garbage out back home.
She asks him to feed her friggin' poodle because she's gonna stay at a *friends* house.
(...this is way too fun...)
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
backbreaker
Master Don Juan
that actually happened to me in high school. and what was even worse.. I WAS ON THE DAMN TEAM AND I DIDN'T GET ANY!
Docs
Banned
- Even her ugliest friends tell you how much of a nice guy you are.
- Even the ugliest of the ugliest friends tell you how much of a nice guy you are
- You're 30, and your friends can't put their finger on why you can't get laid.
- You draft up a plan, with all variables accounted for except for one thing. You never follow though
- Or you follow though, and you forgot to account for the fact she doesn't like you.
- You get confronted by a random on the street asking you if you are dating this smoking babe walking beside you, and you tell them that no, you're just her friend.
And the all time greatest you know you're an AFC when...
... you admit it to yourself.
PeterNorthisawesome
Banned
When you drive your car for 3 hours just so you can see the chick for 1 hour.
backbreaker
Master Don Juan
PeterNorthisawesome said:
fixed it for ya
Bonhomme
Master Don Juan
You authorize her to use your bank account or credit card.
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
She tells you what she likes in a man, and you try to change into that man.
Your girlfriend flirts with your friends.
You flinch when a girl touches you.
You tell her how you feel instead of showing her.
Maan, this whole thread is bringing back some painful memories!
Bonhomme
Master Don Juan
:crackup:
backbreaker
Master Don Juan
"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.
when your walking down the hall of your school...and the girl that youve passionately fall in love with ....is being kissed very passionately by some other dude ...and want to beat the living sh!t out of the guy for kissing ur girl or just burst in to tears
...PeterNorthisawesome
Banned
Wait wait... AFCs GET LAID? Since when? I heard plenty of AFC telling me how they drove 3-4 hours just so they can see the girl for 1 hour... not for sex but to TALK AKA LISTENING TO HER PROBLEMS... sucks to be an emtional tampon lolbackbreaker said:
Mr.Positive
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Furthermore, when you text message your oneitis more than you see her, she moves away...and then dumps you via text message. :crackup:
God I'm glad I found this site.
rakishness
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.....When you ask a girl out through a friend
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
You are mayor of a town who creates a web site to find a woman, and then still can't get a woman.
http://www.marrythemayor.com/
"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.