I'm Maya. I'm the friend who has been there.

For years, I was the girl who stared at “read” receipts for three hours, overthinking what to text back. I tried all the generic dating advice — “be confident,” “play hard to get” — but no one ever told me what to actually say.

So I started collecting scripts. Real words that work when you're anxious, when he's quiet, when his mom is overbearing. Love Code Daily is my dictionary of those words. Not theory, just copy-paste sentences that keep your softness and your boundaries.

I spent a decade as a brand copywriter, which is really a decade of learning that one word changes everything — and that most people don't need more insight, they need the sentence. Now I write the same way for the moments that actually keep women up at night: the unanswered text, the reassurance you're embarrassed to ask for, the houseguest you never agreed to, the email you should have said no to.

Every entry here is built the same way: the exact question as the title, a two-line answer at the top, three scripts in different tones, what not to send, and why it works. You shouldn't have to read an essay to find your words.

I'm not a therapist. I'm the friend who has been there.