Commandante
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squirrels said:As the article says, before contraception, natural expressions of romance ended with children being conceived. So it was normal to marry a woman who you "loved". Even though marriage was an institution designed around child-rearing, when you hooked up with a woman, that's simply "what happened".
Back then, things were a lot simpler, too. Separation among the sexes insured that the men were usually "out" and the women were usually "in". So you could marry a woman and virtually never have to even see her, so long as you provided for her and your kids. But since if you hump a girl enough times without contraception she WILL end up having your children, marriage basically served as a man committing to support a woman's children.
Today, the genders and their roles are so inter-mingled that many things that were clear become clouded.
You know why society continues to push marriage, though? Because a single person can't afford to buy and furnish a 300-500K "McMansion" house by himself.
The "couple" is the new buying unit in the modern social economy. Everything that was previously out of the reach of a single wage-earner is now marketed to the "couple" as a purchasing entity.
That's why a lot of these stupid couples "shack up" together before getting married...they want a house, a car, or some other nonsense and they see other married or shacked-up couples affording those things much more easily.
And that's why it's almost as hard to break off a shack-up as it is a marriage...the notion of "community property".
Hell, it's not even the MARRIAGE part of marriage that's hard to annul, it's the distribution of wealth and responsibility. In that respect, shack-ups ARE de-facto marriages, pretty much.
I don't know why people are too stupid to realize this these days. If I was living on another planet, it'd crack me up.
Hi Jayer,Jayer said:Izza I understand. I want to choose to be happy in all scenarios as you are saying. You definitely seem like a true optimist. Were you always like this? Do you have any books or activities you can recommend I do to get into that positive outlook on life mindset?
Use as many tools of happiness as I can find.... sounds logical and progressive. I looked up the book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and it seems to have mixed reviews. I'd still be willing to give it a shot though. Would you be willing to review this with me if I start a thread? I did it for the Art of Seduction and it was successfulizza said:Hi Jayer,
I took some time to respond - largely out of curiosity about where the thread would move. Anyway - I believe happiness is always available now. Society teaches us that we should choose misery, and people are so seldom conscious these days, myself included, that this works fairly well. I would just say this to you: collect as many tools of happiness as you can. Never stop collecting tools of happiness - breathing exercises or religious beliefs or mantras. Think of each trick as a tool you're adding to your belt. Not every problem in life is a nail - carrying a hammer won't solve all your problems. A true handyman has a toolkit.
You can choose to be happy now with the tools you have now. And also, don't forget to benefit from 10,000 years of human culture and 550 years of the printing press. Most people around us are quite stupid, but there are a lot of highly conscious, fascinating people you can surround yourself with anytime. Books are a wonderful tool - and most happy people I know have a habit of conversing with books as much as with people.
As for people on here - listen to what they say, don't accept advice from anyone because they claim they've been "successful". Read their other posts - are they genuinely happy? Do they see the beauty and magic in every person, object, and moment? Have they forgiven their past hurts? Are women people to them or objects? I'd bet a lot of guys give you advice in a spirit of nastiness because their last date disappointed them, and now they want to feel powerful and successful simply by claiming they are, giving advice on an anonymous forum.
I'm also saying don't rely on any one book or guru or religion but view all of them as tools, and never stop collecting tools of happiness. I suppose if I had to suggest one book, I would say The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Just don't use anything you try and it doesn't help. He has a lot of helpful concepts, I thought.
And no, of course I haven't always been this way. I would say I was mildly depressed - just a constant mild depression - for about 15 years. Lots of studies show that depression has long-term cycles like that. Of course mild depression is simply considered normal - as there are very few people in the world who have much mental health. Most are quite miserable and stuck in compulsive, repetitive thinking. I was for a long time, and still am shockingly unaware of things around me much of the time.
Buddhism has a lot of happiness-tools that I have really benefited from - as do the Quakers in my experience. Both have resolved a lot of things that caused me to suffer previously.
Izza
seagull said:You say that she needs to lose some weight. Well, after marriage she will likely become complacent like most women do and start packing on a few extra kilos. And after you have children, it will be very difficult for her to lose weight. This is a losing battle, especially at her age. If you this is not a major issue for you then fine, but be wary because in a few years time you may find yourself tied down to a blimp.
If you have your doubts about marriage, don't get married. It's not something where you want to "wing it" and just hope it works.Jayer said:My gf is really starting to push this marriage...... I'm so confused... I know I'm not ready... but I don't want to lose her. Girls with her qualities are hard to come by.
That being said I may cheat on her tomorrow night... I'll keep you all posted with another cheat report
You're doing two things here that are common and I just want you to be aware of:Jayer said:My gf is really starting to push this marriage...... I'm so confused... I know I'm not ready... but I don't want to lose her. Girls with her qualities are hard to come by.
Cheating is cowardly. Again, I told everyone I'm with now that I will be seeing other people. I tell them all about each other, I introduce them to each other, they will become friends. Cheating is unnecessary.That being said I may cheat on her tomorrow night... I'll keep you all posted with another cheat report
http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showpost.php?p=1684153&postcount=9Jayer said:Squirrels
I respect you being able to play the field honestly. Just curious but is marriage an option for you if you meet the right person? Or do you just not believe in it period.... If so I'd be curious to hear what qualities you'd be looking for
Well...whatever happens from this point on...you asked for it. :nervous:Jayer said:ok everyone so my problems just got immensly worse or just started depending on how you want to look at it. I violated a fundamental role of DJism that I am going to need everyone's help in trying to fix.
I let my girlfriend move in with me!!!
Now please realize I am admitting right now that this is a mistake and I honestly did not want this to happen. I was and currently am totally against this. I read the post on here about it too and it only made me feel that much worse. But anyway let me explain how and why this happend
I am going to be totally honest with everyone here and admit things I didn't want to even admit to myself but they are true. I have grown emotionally dependent on my girlfriend..... I tried my best not to let this happen.. I spun plates, tried to reduce time seeing her. tried to do other things... but ultimately she become such an integrated part of my life that I feel better knowing she is with me then if she wasn't. I came to this conclusion about 2 weeks ago where we had a big fight and practically broke up with each other. Well inside I felt horrible... well we ended up reconciling with each other and I've felt better. Now all that being said she is at least as emotionally dependent on me as I am on her if not more.... Anyway I'll elaborate on that if I have to but let me get to this current dilemma
So my girlfriend lived at home and this past weekend she had an upsetting fight with her family (this happens a lot), she told me she needed to stay at my place. I obviously feel I should be there for her and had no problem with this....... So then she talks to me about moving in together. I immediately and have told her numerous times I'm against this... but as she was visibily upset I told her she could stay with me for as long as she needs to.
Now I know the reasons why it sucks having a girlfriend live with me... but as the famous thread says they are reasons that are all negative for me. So its really hard to use that as a counter-argument against a girlfriend who wants to live with you. I basically just say I don't believe in it before marriage, that i'm tradtional blahb lah blah... But if anyone has any recommended rebuttals please share!
So anyway, she decided that she is going to stay with me until she gets her own place. But yup! of course I see the big picture here.... I know her financials aren't great and I can see it turning into a permament situation as she gets comfortable.
Help!!!!
Kailex said:This girl is smart.
She knows she didn't have to use YOUR place as a refuge from her problems with family, but you allowed her to do so... she used your emotions as prey and sunk her teeth into you.
First of all, why are you cheating on her? Your talking about potential marriage material and in the same posts, talking about cheating?
The writing's on the wall here, you obviously don't want to marry her, so why are you prolonging the agony?
Because you are used to having her in your life?
Because you are dependent on her?
Because she's a safe choice?
Because you're afraid of hurting her feelings?
But what about you?
You've given us every reason to NOT be with her but you continue to have your cake and eat it too. It CAN'T work that way. Either you're in an LTR and eventually a marriage, or you are spinning a plates while being single. It's very unfair to consider marrying someone and in the same breath saying that you just can't be with her and then posting "She moved in with me, help me to get out of this".
You've had this thread and others for a few weeks. You HAD to see this coming at some point, since she has been pressing the marriage issue for a while... and now, she's playing her last hand... she moved herself into your place.
This is your window of opportunity to either put up or shut up. You said yourself you are not ready... I think it's time you had THAT talk with her. But right now, you are currently wasting BOTH parties' time with this. If you don't want to marry her, then move on. Forget her "qualities". There's millions of women. If you still feel like you want to test the waters, you are entitled to do so... but you are effectively stringing her along while you do so.
It almost seems like you want to convince yourself that you can keep her along while you test the waters at the same time... as if you were a branch swinger yourself. Almost as if you were making sure that there are no better options out there before you finally decide to settle on this one...
And what now... now that she's moved in? How do you go about the cheating? How do you go about the life you were leading?
Everything has finally caught up to you.
I think it's finally time you manned up and made a decision on what you want to do with your life. All I can say is... be selfish and make the best decision for YOURSELF. In the end, it'll benefit the two of you.
Good luck.