squirrels said:That's the problem...people can't see past tradition.
I personally couldn't give a flying f*ck at how "things have worked since the dawn of time". I'm not impressed by people who insist on doing things a certain way for no reason other than, "that's the way they've always been done".
Sure, it works. But I wouldn't say that it's necessarily "enlightened". I am surprised how possessive most men are on here about women. They're ready to go out and bang as many girls as possible, but when they find one they like, they suddenly become very jealous and possessive, ready to crucify the girl for being a "slvt", "wh0re", or "low-quality woman" if she doesn't bow down and kiss his arse, or if she doesn't want to slip on the ring and take herself off the market right away.
It's a vicious double-standard driven by ego insecurity. It's not enough to be loved by women...women have to love them MORE than anyone else. It's exactly what I said...a "desire to be special". An EXPECTATION of being special in a girl's eyes, just by virtue of some cheap verbal "commitment to be exclusive".
I know it, I've felt it. I'd love to think every girl I've ever dated or hooked up with thinks of me as "the best", that when she's out with the next guy, she's wishing she was still with me. I know, though, that this is silly.
Truly "special" relationships aren't a result of you loving or caring for someone more than another person just by virtue of "who they are". This is what people SEEK when they're "looking for a relationship", but it's not what relationships are built on, which is WHY relationships in today's society CRUMBLE so easily.
Truly "special" relationships aren't the result of finding a perfect woman (or a perfect MAN if you're a girl). They're the result of shared experiences over time. If people would just look for someone they enjoy spending time around, the "relationship" would develop over time.
Instead, everyone acts like this whole dating game is some kind of scientific equation..."you have this and this and this, and don't have that and that, then you're 'quality'...otherwise you're 'not quality'".
And that's why this whole game is stupid. And why expecting so much of anyone, man or woman, from the get-go is stupid. Not only stupid, but arrogant, to believe you are one-half of a miracle, and demanding, to expect someone else to be the other half of that miracle, and then possessive to expect to OWN the result, for two people in a "relationship" to expect to OWN each other, to the point where THEY can decide what the other does and does not do in life.
I know that's how people have "always done it". And that's why I continue to say, "people are stupid".
Now it's not a problem that people don't understand it. It's worked forever with people NOT understanding it, as you've pointed out. The problem is people who DON'T understand it but CLAIM that they DO. THOSE are the people screwing it up. It's like an 8 year old who just learned how to turn a wrench and suddenly tries to rebuild a carburetor.
So basically, you are saying that being an average, mediocre guy is totally ok with you. You are ok with women forgetting about you because you are so average? And while you are at it, superior males can fvck your girlfriend because you can't really do anything about it...being an average male.
Good job!
Nobody wants that. People want to be "special" as you put it, or as I like to say "exceptional" because that is the true goal of humanity. Males who have everything do not have to worry about their woman cheating because the woman will NEVER find a male better than him. So, it doesn't matter what the female wants because anything she does will be in the downward direction. In this case, that same male could lay claim to dozens of women and they all would pine for him day and night, knowing that they are unlikely to ever eclipse a male of that value. It is and has always been the dream of males to be of such high value that you become untouchable and get to do anything you want while repressing the desires of those you "own" because they simply aren't as valued as you.
No male wants to be average and "share" his girl.