[MiddleEastern]

My dad knocked on my grandparents' door and asked for my mother's hand for marriage. They accepted and that was it. No game whatsoever.

[Earl Grey]

How did your parents meet?

My mother's brother (my uncle) arranged a marriage between her and my father.


And, what game did you dad drop on your mom?

Haha, N/A

[Th0r]

It's sad the way some people talk about their parents. I think a lot of the red pill stuff was less applicable several decades ago compared to now. The values associated with marriage have also changed enormously in the last few decades so I think to take our parents relationships which for the majority of users on this forum probably started around 30 years ago and contextualize it in today's society, to me is somewhat questionable.

To answer the question my mum and dad met around thirty years ago, my mum was much younger than what is now considered 'the wall' and met my father who was in his thirties. My mum was incidentally also the provider in the relationship, proposed to my dad and paid for him to keep a second home - Potentially he may have used deep conversion game and in my opinion kept his marriage going by working my mum and doing his own thing.

[Swedreams]

Karate instructor game. My dad was state champion and ran classes. He was known for it in his small town and apparently had a nick name everyone knew... So maybe infamous bad guy game. And then he invited my mom to try a class, that's all I know.

[Fortis]

My dad used bad ass gangster game. Need I say more?

[DChambers]

Father was a surfer and a child of the 70's. Mother was a rebel girl in the 80's. Used to take her out on surf trips when she had boyfriends and screw her. Funniest damn thing, my mother told me how she used to sleep with my dad on vacation when she still had boyfriends back home but in the same sentence told me all this blue pill stuff, I nearly fell off my chair laughing. My dad's sex advice to me was " find a girl, make a move, if she doesn't go for it drop her and move on to the next one." Words to live by.

[Fortis]

(04-28-2014 05:58 AM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

My mom was on a payphone in the middle of a breakup with her current boyfriend and got off the phone bawling her eyes out. My dad walked up and said, "Looks like you need a new boyfriend." Game recognized.

That's some next level shit.

[Truth Teller]

My grandfather's game was very solid. He basically learned it the tough way, growing up with almost no money and being told stuff like "don't beg for a woman's attention" (a candy store owner told him that when he heard him begging for a date on the phone). His game was fairly close to what today's game is, albeit with a little less of an edge.

My father's game mystifies me. He said he wasn't the most successful with women, but he has some fairly dominant tendencies. I would say that he excels at frame control in that he makes my mother feel as though she has power, but it's obvious that she has a lot less than she really does. I would also say that he's very self-amusing. He says what he wants, regardless of whether or not others find it funny.

[HawkWrites]

My mom was still moderately attractive (before she got fat) in a traditional sense. Of course I'm able to look past the "Oh she's my mom so she's always attractive" bullshit. My mom is fat as fuck but she was attractive back in the day that my dad got her and was way thinner (mid-80s).

For anyone like me, I seriously use the release dates of Metallica albums as the milestones to chart any worthwhile events in my life (my parents got married the year "Ride the Lightning" came out (1985), I was born when "...And Justice For All" came out (1988) came out, etc.)

As long as you have some kind of tying principle to important dates in your life you're good-to-go in my book. As far as I'm concerned, my dad probably used some kind of amused mastery in his day to get my mom.

[NiceNEasy]

My pops swooped my 22-year old mother despite being 13 years her senior. It was a social circle pull. A group of friends were out having coffee. My pops says my mom's then boyfriend was an asshole. So, partly because he was attracted to her and mostly because he didn't like the guy, he hit on her in his presence, asked her out and got her number... and took her away. He still had a few girlfriends on the side at first, but she eventually domesticated him (I think).

[Dantes]

(04-11-2012 10:37 PM)Tuthmosis Wrote:  

Lately, I've been been asking every married or LTR couple, young and old, how they met. Then, I ask--sometimes in a less direct way--what game the guy used on the girl. If the male and the female are there, I ask them both. Invariably, every single one of these stories have some clear game principles evident: the guy was bold, aggressive, DHV'd, didn't give a fuck, etc. It's super-interesting, and I highly recommend it as an entertaining learning exercise.

I've also starting asking how people's parents met--for basically the same reasons. Of course, depending on where and when they're from, the old-scholers lived in a totally different world than us. Less whoring, more LTR-ing, more feminine women, more old-school chivalry, the list goes on.

How did your parents meet? And, what game did you dad drop on your mom? If you don't know, find the fuck-out.

My dad wore down my mom over the course of several months. They met really young, when she used to have to walk by a street corner where he and his other high-school drop-out buddies used to hang out. He hit her up every time, trying to get her to smile since she was a "very serious girl." One time, he "negged" her by asking her if she would "join his sports team"--quickly adding "as the mascot." She "hated him" and started avoiding that street altogether. He ran into her a few weeks later, ate some food she was carrying, and got her to agree to go out on a date. This first date, she claims, is the "only time he bought [her] anything." They shared a coke. They married like 18 months later, when he got out of the military. She always talks about "how beautiful" the letters were that he periodically sent her from where he was stationed.

My mother still cries on the anniversary of his death and when she hears songs that remind her of him. She never remarried. My dad's game was that tight, I guess.

My father direct approached my mother in a restaurant in Greenwich Village. He was with his parents who are quite conservative. My grandmother was appalled by his behavior. In response he said, "I think I just met my future wife." My mother was with her sister and reluctantly gave him her number. It took him four phone calls for her to agreed to a lunch date. I guess the direct approach and persistence is in my DNA. The restaurant is still there by the way.

[Beyond Borders]

(07-08-2014 02:48 AM)MiddleEastern Wrote:  

My dad knocked on my grandparents' door and asked for my mother's hand for marriage. They accepted and that was it. No game whatsoever.

I disagree. That takes balls.

It was a different time is all.

And not everyone games with the same end goal in mind. That doesn't mean it's not game.

[SouthernCasanova]

Hypergamy, cocky-funny and albeit of asshole...That's the magic bullet for average guys, in my opinion.

[Pontifex Maximus]

(07-08-2014 02:48 AM)MiddleEastern Wrote:  

My dad knocked on my grandparents' door and asked for my mother's hand for marriage. They accepted and that was it. No game whatsoever.

That is high level direct game. It's easy to game a woman, because she wants sex and resources, as simple transaction. To game the father, you have to overcome another bundle of male pride and emotional possession, on top of the fact he doesn't want sex from you. Closing your mom using your grandfather is 250% game, high respect for your dad.

My dad was a"sigma" before he came to the U.S. He tells me stories of how he stole motorbikes and cigarettes from the Communist surplus stores when he was about 12, and ditch school to explore the mountains. My grandmother tells me he left alone to "get stuff" and supplied things people in Communist China couldn't get, because things like flour, pork and tobacco were state-rationed. He came over at around 17 and forcefully went blue-pill because he couldn't speak English.

He's a natural extrovert with a dark humorous sense, so ran some asshole/beta provider on my mother, who he gamed when she worked at a travel agency. Then he found out that my mother was friends/coworkers with his sister, so social circle game after. They've been married for 20 years now and raised me into a future conquistador. Now I understand he needed to go blue-pill to be able to give me a life here, so I have nothing but appreciation for him. When I took the red-pill a few years ago though, it also seems to have re-emerged in him, he passes my mother's shit-tests like a charming bastard. Asian women have ridiculous shit-tests, but cook up some sweet food.

[Roardog]

My dad always did well with the ladies. He was a very successful horse rider during his school days (a big thing in the area and time that he grew up) and was the heir to a large farm so high value to the girls he was interacting with.
He went pro after high school and then took a break to go to Ag college (at my grandma's insistence) where he met my mum.
She had a boyfriend at the time and my dad used to love pissing him off. He'd come up to my mum, put his arm around and her say things like "lets go make babies".
They kept in touch after college writing each other letters. When my mum broke up with her boyfriend she told my dad in a letter and he wrote back "That's the best news I've ever heard, I'm coming to visit."
The rest is history.

[Erasmus]

I don't know exactly how my parents met. I do know my mum kept cooking food and cakes for my dad. She is still doing that and are still together. Also my mom stayed at home and took care of the household and raised me and my 3 younger sisters. No wonder I turned out so good.

[robreke]

Dread game;

They were dating in college. She gave him mixed signals. They broke up. A month later...she saw him walking into her dorm from her dorm window. There was a big dance the next night. She thought he was coming to ask her.

A few minutes later my mom and her friends looked out the dorm window and saw my dad walking out to his car with another girl, taking her on a date. After that, when he called weeks later, they got together. Rest is history.

[Sonoma]

Massive confidence game for my birth dad

He was kind of a loser who enjoyed a good time and would talk to everyone. He met my mom's best friend at the bar, and the best friend set them up. He was a really good dancer who kept my mom entertained. Also was a massive alcoholic who probably shouldn't have been a parent/husband. I met him later in life past his prime but he didn't seem to notice, he still had MILFs buying him drinks at the bar and chatted up everyone.

Looked like Jack Nicholson but talked as if he was George Clooney.

Step-dad had traditional alpha with a hint of bad boy game, but marriage fell apart after he lost his job. He was never enjoyable to be around

[Merenguero]

(11-25-2014 02:13 PM)Sonoma Wrote:  

Massive confidence game for my birth dad

He was kind of a loser who enjoyed a good time and would talk to everyone. He met my mom's best friend at the bar, and the best friend set them up. He was a really good dancer who kept my mom entertained. Also was a massive alcoholic who probably shouldn't have been a parent/husband. I met him later in life past his prime but he didn't seem to notice, he still had MILFs buying him drinks at the bar and chatted up everyone.

Looked like Jack Nicholson but talked as if he was George Clooney.

He doesn't sound like a loser at all. He actually sounds like the complete opposite of that.

[CodyB]

My dad ran the "I-lost-my-wallet-can-I-borrow-10p-for-a-phone-call-say-have-you-ever-been-to-bali-game"

Things quickly progressed, a small furniture empire sprung up importing balinese furniture to Australia (before it was cool) and later burnt to the ground amidst a haze of narcotics. Somewhere along the line I was born, my parents divorced and my dad now runs old cosmic guy game.

[floor7]

Arranged Marriage game - which makes for the worst environment if you have male children in the west.

Game should be naturally developed from as young of an age as possible starting from your father.

Nothing stunts this natural development like the AM game of your parents.

[Lance Blastoff]

My dad was 38, my mother 22. He was trying to get headhunting business from my grandpa's company and she was his receptionist. He chatted her up, asked her out and took her to see his band play next night. He wasn't a perfect man, but he had great game.

[Silver_Tube]

Dad was a football star, mom was the head cheerleader. She was engaged to some beta with a jewfro in the 70's. He had a reputation for throwing parties at his place in college. He took her from the fiance pretty easily.

Shame he had to be at work so much when I was young, mom raised me to be a pussy until I got out of the house.

[tallandblonde]

Beta orbiter game. My parents knew each other since high school but didn't start dating until college. They were friends for a while but eventually my mom gave up on other options and settled for my dad I'm guessing. He somehow broke out of the friend zone.

[ColSpanker]

Social circle game. Pop was organizing dances while holding down a mechanic's job. Mom met him through some mutual friends while she was working as a secretary. They'd broken up after dating when mom saw an announcement about one of the events he was putting on. Within a week they reconnected and were engaged. I showed up about 9 1/2 months after the wedding so I've always wondered if I was a bun in the oven.
But pop never did take the red pill.
Poor pop had to endure my mom until the day he died. She was from a rural area and never took to suburbia in the 60's. Their entire social circle revolved around a protestant church. I managed to get out of the house at 18 when I went to college
But pop's parents were drunks and divorced early. Always thought he endured mom's nagging because he was obsessed with having a stable family.