Best age to enter LTR
12-10-2018, 01:12 AM
I'd say 25 to 30 for the average man, 30 to 35 for the slightly above average man, and 35 to 45 for the above average man.
That's because an average man won't accomplish much to raise his SMV after 30 anyways, but he will get older, fatter, have less sexual prowess, and possibly lose his hair around then.
On the other hand, the above average man may actually get more fit as he ages by eating and exercising in a disciplined way, and may even increase his looks with braces, lasik, and other procedures as well. Also, the increases in the above average man's bank account/assets and confidence will increase his SMV more than the decrease in his SMV due to age.
So for the above average man, getting into an LTR before 35 to 45 means he's selling his stock before it peaked. While for the average man, waiting until 35 to 45 massively decreases the quality he can get, as his SMV plummets like a rock due to the impacts of aging added to the effects of having less assets and less confidence versus his above average peers.
You could also wing it at 18 to 22 with a high school sweetheart or whatnot, and that can work too. But then you never have a chance to make it on your own. Which can be good or bad.
But yeah, just be honest with yourself and where you stand versus other men. And that can help you decide whether to be open to an LTR or to HODL.
An example of an above average man is a doctor. A doctor is better off playing the field while he's a student and into the first 10 years or so of his practice. After that point in his mid 30's, his looks have faded a tiny bit, but his SMV is very high. Now, he might be celibate if he doesn't apply that SMV into activities that convert into relationships, but if he does apply that SMV, he can get the best quality girl he could in his life during that age bracket, 35 to 45.
An example of an average guy is a guy that maybe has a handsome face, but he's short. Maybe isn't too strong academically. So that guy peaks in high school and possibly college, if he even attends. He'll get plenty of attention from girls due to his boyish looks before 25, but after that, his facial aesthetics will start fading, and his lack of height will hurt him, as his boyish looks will be gone and they won't be able to make up for the lack of height anymore. With his boyish looks gone, no height to make him imposing even as he ages, and no accomplishments to raise his SMV, he's simply not going to get access to the women he had access to in high school and college due to his boyish looks. So for that guy, it would be advantageous to lock up an LTR from 25 to 30 (or even earlier), before his boyish looks are gone for good.
So yeah, you've got to analyze your SMV and project to the future if you're trying to cash out at the point where your SMV is highest and will allow you to secure the highest SMV girl you could get in your life.
Also, you want to know yourself. If you don't know yourself yet, if you don't know who you are, if you don't feel at ease in your own skin, then regardless of your SMV, it's too soon. I mean...in the end, we have to make a move, so sometimes you just gotta move forward with life even if things aren't perfect, but try to get to know yourself really well before entering into an LTR. To know your own weaknesses, your own strengths, and how the other person in a potential LTR, how their weaknesses and strengths, will interact with yours. It helps tremendously in being able to love other people to be comfortable with yourself, to know yourself, to be at ease with life and with your roles in it.
And by LTR in the context of this thread, I mean a relationship leading to marriage. You should definitely be open to dating and having girlfriends at all ages.