Serenity
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@Pandora
All that effort and still life does not bend to your will, welcome to everyone's life. It gets easier if you stop expecting things to go your way, it would be pretty boring too if everything was predictable. Winning means nothing without failing, so you gotta love the game and not just winning.
Now some specific ideas. It seems you go for sex pretty damn quick, which is great for the sake of avoiding a relationship. If you want LTR you have to not let your d!ck blind you, there's several other factors to consider like what you'd actually want in a woman besides sex. You can use the same strategy many women use to find a LTR partner, wait with sex until certain conditions are met. If she quickly goes ghost you can be relatively sure she wasn't looking for a LTR. If she starts pushing it within the first few dates you can also be relatively sure she wasn't looking for LTR. In either case you've invested very little emotion into her. What you would be looking for is a woman who enjoys your presence, doesn't play games and sticks around for more than 2-3 dates without sex. Alternatively you can fvck her early, but playfully ask (before sex) if she'll run away or come back for more. If the response is quick and positive then go ahead. I don't think you're being too picky, on the contrary I think you're not being picky enough or at least not picky about the right things.
Stop beating yourself up too much thinking "what did I do wrong?", interpersonal dynamics isn't as simple as right or wrong because of individual differences. What you did "wrong" with that one woman might be entirely right for another, which means you can do everything "right" and still fail because it was the wrong woman. Sounds like that one particular woman has her own struggles with these things though, nothing you can do about a woman who can't relationship properly. Other than find one who can.
What you say about the reason having a nice apartment is to get laid is hilarious. I have a nice apartment because I like living in a nice apartment, because it's nice... I don't make choices based on how much I think women like it, I make choices based on how much I like it. Your view on this is not really MGTOW if you think about it, because men who go their own way don't run back to depending on their parents. I would certainly not want to go back living with my parents, even if I was chronically single, they're good but it would put limits on my freedom.
All that effort and still life does not bend to your will, welcome to everyone's life. It gets easier if you stop expecting things to go your way, it would be pretty boring too if everything was predictable. Winning means nothing without failing, so you gotta love the game and not just winning.
Now some specific ideas. It seems you go for sex pretty damn quick, which is great for the sake of avoiding a relationship. If you want LTR you have to not let your d!ck blind you, there's several other factors to consider like what you'd actually want in a woman besides sex. You can use the same strategy many women use to find a LTR partner, wait with sex until certain conditions are met. If she quickly goes ghost you can be relatively sure she wasn't looking for a LTR. If she starts pushing it within the first few dates you can also be relatively sure she wasn't looking for LTR. In either case you've invested very little emotion into her. What you would be looking for is a woman who enjoys your presence, doesn't play games and sticks around for more than 2-3 dates without sex. Alternatively you can fvck her early, but playfully ask (before sex) if she'll run away or come back for more. If the response is quick and positive then go ahead. I don't think you're being too picky, on the contrary I think you're not being picky enough or at least not picky about the right things.
Stop beating yourself up too much thinking "what did I do wrong?", interpersonal dynamics isn't as simple as right or wrong because of individual differences. What you did "wrong" with that one woman might be entirely right for another, which means you can do everything "right" and still fail because it was the wrong woman. Sounds like that one particular woman has her own struggles with these things though, nothing you can do about a woman who can't relationship properly. Other than find one who can.
What you say about the reason having a nice apartment is to get laid is hilarious. I have a nice apartment because I like living in a nice apartment, because it's nice... I don't make choices based on how much I think women like it, I make choices based on how much I like it. Your view on this is not really MGTOW if you think about it, because men who go their own way don't run back to depending on their parents. I would certainly not want to go back living with my parents, even if I was chronically single, they're good but it would put limits on my freedom.
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