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She's Not Good Enough
09-20-2014, 06:24 PM
Quote: (09-19-2014 04:05 AM)Sp5 Wrote:
Important question for me. Being divorced and in late 50's I have gone through 15 mini-relationships in the last 2 years.
I am considering a long-term commitment, just because I am getting old and lazy. I also could have the woman work and support the house while I collect the pensions.
Out of the women in these relationships, I usually reach what I call a "DQ" (disqualification) moment because of attitude, sexual performance, annoyances, conversational ability, etc. There are some who I consider as real LTR prospects. One was a 42 year old virgin.
As Jariel pointed out, it's amazing how many women will try to emotionally manipulate you into commitment while not actually doing the things you ask them to do, putting in the work. As if telling you how much they love you and miss you 100 times a day is enough.
You know you are more of an abstract idea of a romantic escape for these women than a real person. I try to bring the reality that I am a real person early
It's a dilemma - when do I stop looking? I know there is no "one," there is only "good enough."
In a similar mindset although in my 40s now. Have had a lot of 'mini-relationships' over the past 5+ years. Have one Ukrainian women in her late 20s (or so she says
) who's angling for a relationship now and stepping up contact with me and am trying to figure out how to manage and ultimately end it.
Those "DQ" moments seem to happen a lot earlier with me these days. Whereas it might have taken me a few months or half a year to move on a few years ago now it's a month or two at most. I guess I've gotten smarter about women, and they just don't impress me much and I know what to look for, but I think part of it also has to be me becoming increasingly aware of abundance mentality and also being so set in my ways that I'm a hard man to please at this point. I guess I also really don't know what to look for re a baby mama or long-term relationship (otherwise I'd already have one) so if I do find a potential candidate I tend to err on the side of caution and blow things up.
I think re kids and finding the "right woman" inevitably you will grow apart/she'll go crazy or things just won't work out so increasingly I'm like "eh, just roll the dice" and have the idea to knock up one of the next few girls I'm with and see where it takes me. People change, post-partum depression happens, the sex gets old, women let their bodies got to waste etc. so even a "perfect" long-term candidate has a decent chance of blowing up in your face. That puts me firmly in the "just find one who's good enough" camp and in favor of taking a chance I guess.
Or I could move to Norway / Switzerland and try to find a girl who will take care of me financially/get me free healthcare & a passport, etc.
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09-26-2016, 03:00 PM
Dread game is like diesel- heavy, dark and dirty. A LTR in need of it should be kicked to the curb.
But then, that leads us to the next question: What's the best energy to drive a LTR with?
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10-01-2016, 10:08 AM
^^-- "Team" / "My Intern" vibes
Credit WIA for the intern analogy -- but it's having her down for the team, ride or die, not in it for the pay day, but for the cause.
Inspire her to be useful to you and to herself.
The "dread" is creating such a great energy, she knows other guys who look great on paper can't provide the You.
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09-11-2017, 06:28 PM
Bumping for visibility. Jariel's threads are missed.
"Does PUA say that I just need to get to f-close base first here and some weird chemicals will be released in her brain to make her a better person?"
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09-12-2017, 01:56 AM
This is a great thread, thanks for the bump. Wisdom here and chords that run true for me.
For me a bad habit is that it takes so much effort to find a decent one, and then to train her up, that I tend to put up with suboptimal behaviour too long rather than go through the effort again.
I can get them to step up with dread game, but thats so much hard work.
They are devastated when I sack them, and tell me they will do anything to get back, but its like Fuck me bitch, why not put that effort in before you get the sack?
Bitches be lazy and crazy.
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09-14-2017, 05:58 AM
Man I miss Jariel's posts so much. He said it perfectly here.
Most girls are not putting in the effort to be the kind of girl she needs to be. I tell girls all the time things I need them to do: go to the gym, pluck out those hairs, do something better with your hair, don't give me that attitude. And half the time they give me a look, like, really? A good amount get it though and understand this isn't the retard Olympics, not everyone gets a medal.
My main problem is that I get a lot of girls, I tell them to jump and they say "how high". They understand Im the boss. But then things slide off and I have to tell them again. Then again. Things like diet, gym, clothing. I don't want to be their Daddy all the time. One issue is that Im a bit older and the girls I date are often 12-14 years younger than myself so maybe I'm self-selecting minor daddy issue girls. But it still bugs me. Im the captain, its cool, but I don't want to micro-manage some girl. I don't have time for that shit. Just listen to what I tell you and work at being good enough for me.
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09-16-2017, 10:40 PM
I have the same problem. You have to select girls that align with you on your most important wants (say you mentioned diet, very understandable). I guess that's why they say that for relationships to work the man and the woman need to have similar values.
Otherwise, it'll be endless work to align these values, I think.
But I had a girl who shared my values around health before and she was crazy in other ways, so just that is not a guarantee.
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03-17-2019, 06:47 PM
Bumping this because I just broke up with my live-in LTR of 3 years. She is a good person, a sweet/cute and loyal girl, but in the end, not good enough for me. She is a very capable girl who had to fight for everything in life (Foreign born 3rd world immigrant). I really admire her resilience, work ethic and grit. Plus, she is a great cook and showered me with affection. Not one fiber in body ever thought that she would break up with or cheat on me.
Unfortunately, she is pretty messy and sloppy when it comes to the household. 80% of our fights were about stupid shit. Minute, silly things like cleaning up after yourself, taking down the trash, etc. I never thought that I would break up over this kind of shit, but here I am.
My approach with girls is always pretty direct, they do something I don't like and I tell them immediately. Since nobody is a mind reader, you have to vocalize your needs. Since I really love this girl and wanted to keep her in my life (potentially for good, I'm almost 40), I gave her more than enough heads-ups, pointers, whatever you want to call it. I even showed her how to do certain shores in the household to my liking. She always appeared receptive and did improve a bit on a couple of things but in the end, she always slipped back to being her sloppy self.
The final straw was that I came back from a trip aboard and while the house wasn't super messy, it was too messy for my taste (crates in the hallway, chairs semi blocking a door, etc). She also had decided to buy some new despite me told her explicitly not to buy anything until I was back. On top of that, she messed up my entire desk organization trying to optimize it, when in reality she just dumped everything from the desk's drawers into the new piece of furniture. Essentially, the house was in a worse condition than I had left it in.
I confronted her, told her that I cannot live like that and that she has to go. Now she claims that she'll improve and do everything right. However, she did have almost 3 fucking years to improve and I'm tired of arguing with her about that mundane bullshit as if we were still in college being roommates or something. It still hurts like a mofo because I thought that I had found my unicorn. I guess it's off to the starting line again. Sucks ass but it is what it is.
Thank God (or Roosh) for this forum. So much knowledge, wisdom and insight. Jariel is missed.
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03-17-2019, 08:15 PM
BoiBoi, typically most people would say that it's a bit much to break up over that but I completely understand where you're coming from.
Sometimes we also know deep down that we might not want to be with a person even if they check off our checklist - something internal might just be off and it might not be the cleaning thing.
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03-17-2019, 09:34 PM
In my experience most women are somewhere on the slob spectrum. They just hide it when you come over their place. It's only when you start cohabitating that you see how messy they really are. That's just one reason not to cohabitate. It's kind of impossible to keep things in the honeymoon phase when you cohabitate.
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03-18-2019, 09:25 AM
I've let girls go for some really petty reasons, as well. You think you being "alpha" and "dominant" but in reality you're just gonna end up lonely.