Congratulations Rollo.
Earlier you had noted the focus of this site on getting women. What to do next is not frequently noted. I am just re-reading the section of the bible on LTR’s. Not much there either and some of it is conflicting.
Mrs. Grinder and I would have been married 22 years this year. We may make it depending on the actual divorce date. The first 15 years were “good”, hard to categorize this, as this time period was during a time of “pre-consciousness”. I do not like the term “AFC”.
Others here have noted the “unplugging from the matrix” and I do fully ascent to this conceptualization. It was 7 long years ago that I “woke up”. But I had no direction, no path. The complexities of having 4 children, careers, financial obligations, and such are immense.
You have achieved a paradox: Within the narrow confines of “accepted social norms” you have a marriage that is not defined by those same “accepted social norms”. This is good.
SoSuave is NOT unique in its viewpoint on social convention, on male-female interactions. Many social “experiments” have been tried in which (in my humble opinion) a wonderful balance had been found, only to flounder due to outside influences.
There are many ways to BE with others, with women. I live in an area where there are “communes” in which several women and several men share EVERYTHING. This is hidden as the “populace” would not tolerate it. Unfortunately, their have been many failures in these social experiments. Usually, this occurs when “accepted society” has somehow become involved. But, the lessons learned, teach us that the old ways are no longer valid. “Accepted Social Norms” are over a thousand years old and in need of revision.
We have advanced thousands of years technologically, but only days socially. Our social norms remain primitive.
Getting back to the matrix reference: What is truly difficult is that we are not fully disconnected from the matrix, we must walk and talk within it daily, we are exposed to it daily, yet we know it is wrong.
But at least we have some friends that can help us, remind us, that reality is different than “As seen on TV”. This is one of the very, very few places that can do that.