"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.
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"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.
Last Man Standing
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"Women are like guns, keep one around long enough and you're going to want to shoot it."
"But wait, you say that it is not her body, but her 'finer qualities' that enchant you. I see. By this you mean no doubt, her cunning, conniving character, her relentless treachery, her ceaselessly wagging, nagging tongue, her inane vanity, her meows and purrs and hissings, her whorishness and prudery (for Woman spends her entire life vacillating between these two extremes). Or perhaps you have in mind her spitefulness, her obstinacy, her mindless illogic, her caviling, cawing stupidity. Yes, doubtless these are the 'finer qualities' you find to revere in the object of your affections. . ."
- Marquis de Sade
"Women need. They need all the time. They need from you, they need from family, they need from everyone. They are starved for attention. They rely on others to validate them and need constant reassurance from all those around them that they are adequate. Quite simply, a woman is a needing machine."
"Never root through the trash once you've dragged it to the curb. You get messy, your neighbors see you do it and you never really find what you were looking for."
"Men don't complain to women that they are prettier than us, do we?"
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"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.
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Woman nevertheless is incapable of living without a man. Like a queen bee, she cannot survive on her own. She, too, is fighting for her life, and she, too calls it love. They each need one another, in fact, and it seems therefore that they share at least one sentiment. The cause, nature and consequences of this sentiment however differ as much as do the sexes.
To a woman love means power, to a man enslavement. Love provides woman with an excuse for financial exploitation, man with an emotionally charged excuse. "For the sake of love" woman will do things that are of advantage only to herself, while man does only those things that will harm him. When a woman marries she gives up her career "for the sake of love." When a man marries he will have to work for two "for the sake of love." For both sexes, love is a fight for survival. But the one survives only by being victorious, the other only by being defeated. It is a paradox that women can also make their greatest gains during moments of utter passivity and that the word "love" endows them with a halo of selflessness, even at the moment of their most pitiless deception of man.
As a result of "love," man is able to hide his cowardly self deception behind a smoke screen of sentiment. He is able to make himself believe that his senseless enslavement to woman and her hostages is more than an act of honor, it has a higher purpose. He is entirely happy in his role as a slave and has arrived at the goal he has so long desired. Since woman gains nothing but one advantage after another from the situation as it stands today, things will never change. The system forces her to be corrupt, but no one is going to worry about that. Since one can expect nothing from a woman but love, it will remain the currency for any need she might have. Man, her slave, will continue to use his energies only according to his conditioning and never to his own advantage.
He will achieve greater goals and the more he achieves, the farther women will become alienated from him. The more he tries to ingratiate himself with her, the more demanding she will become; the more he desires her, the less she finds him desireable, the more comforts he provides for her, the more indolent, stupid and inhuman she will become-- and man will grow lonelier as a result.
Only woman can break the vicious cycle of man's manipulation and exploitation-- but she will not do it. There is absolutely no compelling reason why she should. It is useless to appeal to her feelings, for she is callous and knows no pity. And so the world will go on, sinking deeper and deeper into this morass of kitsch, barbarism and inanity called femininity.
And man, that wonderful dreamer, will never awaken from his dream."
-From the book The Manipulated Man.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
two others that seem right on
: "You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough."
- Frank Sinatra
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."
- Woody Allen
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Maxtro
Master Don Juan
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results."
Both Ben Franklin and Albert Einstein are credited for the quote...
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Master Don Juan
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
-Socrates