"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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You should want companionship, not a relationship

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One of the things guys get a lot of advice on is how to act, maintain, and survive a relationship. This type of thinking is very weak. If the man 'works' on the relationship he is focusing on her and how to make the woman happy, being subservient to her instead of making the world a better place. It's is up to the female to want, work and maintain the relationship. The man should want companionship and sex. He should not 'want' a relationship. He should be out there making a name for himself while the female comes along for the ride.

Your job is not to maintain the relationship. It is to increase your value to society. Relationship advice should only be for women. :)
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Most of the advice I see here is not on how to maintain a relationship. It's on how to maintain your frame in the relationship I.e. not end up with your balls in a jar.
 
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