RickTheToad
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Marriage Has Become a Trophy
A wedding is no longer the first step into adulthood that it once was, but, often, the last.
Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single
She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
Article - Marriage Has Become a Trophy
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"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Interesting that marriage took place AFTER children were all born.
Probably a good idea, that way you can see how fertile she is and if her weight and stabilised moods return back to normal after births.
There is a fun questionnaire book that could have been in high school curriculums.Here's the title in case you want to try this with your lady Toad.
Probably a good idea, that way you can see how fertile she is and if her weight and stabilised moods return back to normal after births.
There is a fun questionnaire book that could have been in high school curriculums.Here's the title in case you want to try this with your lady Toad.
RickTheToad
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Interesting, but not interested in marrying the State or deal with anymore family courts or attorneys. Once is more than enough for me.
Yes. I'm never marrying either.
Just seen your influx of marriage and engagement and giving house keys related threads over past 7 months or so and recognise the pressure is on you.
There's questions in this book that are provoking and revealing, the way even an intended religious wedding bride would answer them. Yes, you mentioned you would concede a religious wedding in one of your posts- I was shocked but completely understand your pressure.
Its one thing to glibly discuss these topics on an internet forum with profiles from around the world and quite another thing to be the participant in the relationship living out the posts as you type them.
My suggestion of this book is my gift to you, that maybe would further help you, I bought this book myself for my own next LTR(just scratch out the word marry) which would apply and help me#relationshipconversationstarters
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"Today, marriage is a much more central part of family life among the college educated."
To me, this really says that marriage is much more central to the blue-pilled lemmings who dutifully jump thru all the hoops that society expects them to jump thru.
And the atlantic being the woke trash that it is, they have to say that marriage is a heterosexual institution that should be transcended.
To me, this really says that marriage is much more central to the blue-pilled lemmings who dutifully jump thru all the hoops that society expects them to jump thru.
And the atlantic being the woke trash that it is, they have to say that marriage is a heterosexual institution that should be transcended.
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.