I saw that post and I saw that no one had replied. Probably too much content in one large dump for the members to take it all in and respond to it. Lots to digest. You are going to be hard pressed to convince these members to change their thought processes, patterns and beliefs, JFYI.
With this new publication, your new book, is the plan to have it peer reviewed? What is your Phd in? May I have a url to your LinkedIn profile? Feel free to DM it to me if you prefer.
I'm not in a personal place to review the first two chapters of your book at the moment. There is a blend of simply not having time (family obligations) and not needing to 'improve my game' (I'm a female)
I am quite interested in the content you post. However, I have always felt that there is missing content discussed on these boards. Personal responsibility, your role in your situation, seems to be ignored here. Assigning blame is rampant. There is also not much discussion on nature vs nurture, and childhood models, and how that plays a significant role in the partners you choose to interact with, and the patterns you repeat. There is a lot of chatter about physically changing oneself in order to be more attractive, and even earning more income to be more attractive, but there is not chatter about cognitively changing oneself in order to move past the patterns that are no longer serving your needs. There's really no deliberate acknowledgement of such patterns - again, just a lot of blame on the opposite sex for what plays out in a relationship. I am not trying to defend females, we're all fvcked up to a degree. But, unless we really look at yourselves, we auto reflexively repeat patterns that are familiar and comfortable, but not necessarily healthy. It doesn't appear that your book is going to address any of these issues?
You mentioned a few dozen posts ago that females fail to bond with there males and, iirc, attributed that to the demise of marriage. Why do females fail to bond with their males?
If you would read you will see that I do in fact address those issues.
You remind me of my students: "We don't want to do the reading, we want you to explain it to us." If you read my first 2 chapters, all your questions would be answered. It is only 40 pages.
Peer reviewed? That would be insanity. In fact, I had to wait until I left academia to write this book. I am a Political Scientist by training. However I have studied a ton of material on cohabitation. That stuff is great because it has solid empirical models that explain female behavior extremely well. It is rational. My book is designed to be a guidebook for men. I use a lot of material from the seduction community, but also academic sources like cohabitation theory and evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology. I have a program (martial arts and bodybuilding) for physical improvement and spiritual improvement. I use tools from 12 step programs, spiritual understanding of other people and meditation.
Traditional psychology is absolutely worthless when it comes to relationships. They stress "communication." My first wife gave up in the middle of our first session said "**** this" and left. Why? She fell out of love. On the other hand, my current wife will rob banks for me.
I will address a couple of your points here. I don't frame my work as building bonding. I am not sure what that is. My theory (field tested) is that men have one and only one power. The power of love. In todays world the only things you can do is one, pick the right partner, and 2 keep her in love with you. Unfortunately, very few men know how to do so.
You are correct, there are a lot of angry men on this board who blame women and avoid examining their roles in their failed relationships. Think about it: If they were in a good relationship would they be here? Of course not. I was here 14 years ago trying to figure out my situation and I found some great stuff in the DJ bible. I was a regular on MasF and that is where all the masters were.
I came here again and it is the same problem: On the main forum you have a lot of guys who are completely clueless. It is worse than ever. On this, the Mature Man forum you have guys that are smart and very seasoned. They know what they are doing, although they are hampered by their very bad relationships. Yes, they blame women because in our society women bring tremendous sorrow to men. I know this , but I have come back around. Like I said, I don't blame women I blame the choices and mindset our culture has for women and their relationships with men for men. It is a system designed for failure, a system perfectly tailored to destroy families.
That is why the men here, like many others, have opted out of traditional male role models, and I can't blame them.
My first wife was an evil sociopath...but you klnow what? I picked her. One our third date she said she wanted to cut her best friend into pieces because she had not given a coat back that my ex lent her. Talk about rd fkags. My current wife (in my avatar) and I just had a very nice make out session, and treats me like a king. Works all day making lots of money and still brings me dinner every night. She does so because I used my system to select and screen her, and I keep her in love. Very few men know how to do so.
I lay out in my book a rational actor model of female behavior. I posit that women are not evil, they are simply making the best choices that or society gives them. It is the system that is to blame. Women are by nature nurturing and loving, but our society brain washes all of that out of them. You are Scandinavian, yes? Scandinavian women will divorce you in a heart beat, don't get seduced by the blond hair and blue eyes.