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Two things reliably get someone to ring you back: curiosity and guilt. One is cheap and effective, the other works and quietly poisons the conversation you were trying to have. Here is the difference, with the exact voicemails.
When a man suddenly texts less, you are looking at one of two things: a deliberate hot-and-cold play, or real fading interest. Here is how to tell them apart, and why the response to both is the same one.
You never ask. You describe a world in which generosity is unremarkable, then reward it warmly and let its absence go quietly cold. Here is the mechanism, the exact lines, and the honest limits of generosity you had to condition into someone.
The internet thinks a shit test is a woman being difficult and that men need a script to survive it. It is not a script problem. It is a cheap question that buys expensive information, and it runs in both directions.
Telling a man you are waiting hands him a price list. Kanika Batra's answer to a woman re-entering dating after twelve years: never state the rule, take it genuinely slowly, and let him reveal himself against a standard he does not know is being applied.