What we are forced to do

[Pierce Manhammer]

I sometimes marvel at the games I have to play with women to get what I want. I often don’t want to institute the measures I have to achieve the behavior modifications I want.

Universally, the answer is to begin to pull away in small ways; women’s frontal cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus have evolved to detect these subtle changes in a mate's behaviors and trigger hormonal and neurotransmitter releases that cause them to modify their behavior in response. The women don’t even know their doing it!

Sad but true.

Thoughts? Do you ever regret the level at which you need to control interaction to get what you want?

 

[oldmanofthesea]

I don't regret it because it is passive and automatic at this point for most situations. There are some situations that are new or unique and require some thought (especially when we are talking about relationships as opposed to just plate spinning). But more than anything I am thankful that I know what to do and how to do it to get the best possible outcome in a given situation, as opposed to back in my blue pill days when I was just floating with the wind, having no idea why bad things were happening to me in my romantic life, and feeling helpless and confused about it all.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

As a sigma, not big into controlling. If a plate is making me invent and institute rules and measures, I'm likely to move on.

 

[tightgrp]

How can you not game or play with them? Taking them seriously makes you weak and open to manipulation.