"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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Storytelling in LTR?

jhonny9546

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I do think someone's SMV (Sexual Market Value) is very important, but not too relevant after a certain value. To make an easy example, they say that after $75k of income a year, your happiness won't grow anymore. This should be the same for someone's SMV. Then it comes an important element for someone life and SMV: the "kind" of job you do.

As a kid, I always thought that an interesting job would have an important element: "The story".

So, after you've ended your workday, you come back home, and your "kids" and "wife" are waiting for you to "narrate" the story of your day. This is what kept "suspense" and "desire" for a woman in an LTR.
She "craved" to know where you would be, what you were doing, and when you come back home, the tension she's accumulated during the day is at the climax, and she will release either with sex or in other ways.
This could be connected to the fact that many years ago, the women stayed "home", caring for the family, while the man went out hunting, and then, came back with a "story" to tell.

Modern society still relies on those subconscious patterns, even though they want us to look like we're in a different manner. This is why a "keeper" and "household" woman will make a better LTR with a "hardworking" man with a "risky" job and make a better family, and a "career" oriented and not "household" woman will not be good for a family, will have multiple "relatively short LTRs" in their life, with different men, with increased SMV and her condition by year.

There are also exceptions that would make my theory bad, like two people who work on the same job, like family-run businesses, which make good families. (This is very common and gets in contrast to that "risk" "storytelling" thing.) But maybe, the wife will stay at work for the morning only, while the man for the entire day.

Now we can see different configurations, like workfromhome, or two people who passively earn something and so live their life togheter, etc.

In terms of which would be the best life to do, "family oriented", do you think the good old way with "risky job" will still make a relevant impact, or which would be your favourite configuration?
 

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You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

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In terms of which would be the best life to do, "family oriented", do you think the good old way with "risky job" will still make a relevant impact, or which would be your favourite configuration?
The integrated good life.

Build your life around what you like. If it's music, then make your life only music. People, connections, wealth.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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I do think someone's SMV (Sexual Market Value) is very important, but not too relevant after a certain value. To make an easy example, they say that after $75k of income a year, your happiness won't grow anymore
Said who?



So, after you've ended your workday, you come back home, and your "kids" and "wife" are waiting for you to "narrate" the story of your day.
No, they're not. And no one else wants to hear you vent about your day either
 
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