In general I agree with the consensus that stoicism is the default 99% of the time around even good women worth the long haul. In these cases you can show “weakness” twice a year - like every 6 months. I quoted “weakness” because what you show is for THEIR benefit not yours - everyone has heard about maintaining a ratio of beta to alpha traits I believe it’s like 1:9 or even smaller but that’s me. The reason you do this is so that she can feel you’re being “genuine” with her - she can brag to her friends how “sensitive but masculine and strong” you are.
My take is never use a genuine weakness - make one up - make it easy and chick friendly and simple, something easily “recovered from”. She gets her warm and fuzzies and gets her validation that you’re really a great guy. That helps relationships with women, sad but true.
I’ve known men who were in top shape, mid forties - animals, good earning, smart, fun good looking that had hot gf’s in ltrs that had a setback like a torn rotator cuff and the chick dumps him. And don’t let it ever be anything like prostrate benign or not - don’t tell them you’re on SSRIs or SNRI’s, bp meds, diabetic - NOTHING.
A woman’s brain stem overrides their logic and personal experience and 1000 years ago when the man showed weakness he stood a high chance of dying and exposing her to mayhem, this is genetic memory, again this is real guys.
You have to wear a mask in a relationship if you want it to last. I thought once that I could let my guard down with “the one that got away”, I’d held frame for years and let things bleed through because she was THE ONE, of course she’d get it! I paid for that eventually. ONE MOMENT OF WEAKNESS (job related ****). It’s all it takes brothers.
I hope that if even one of you takes this information and succeeds where I failed this post was worth it.