Delta Warning
Another reminder to stay in your lane
A female ESPN reporter provides a helpful reminder of why men always do well to stay in their lane and resist the temptation to try to outkick their coverage.
I’m married to someone average. I don’t post a lot about him. If I was married to someone beautiful, I’d over-post too.
After playing the clip, Greeny asks if she’d like to clear the air. Then this happened.
“We’re average together,” she responded in kind.
Hey nice guys, here’s a line that should rattle you to your core.
“You know what the worst part is?” Dianna continued. “He sent me a text during that segment — he’s not watching because he actually works for a living — and he said, ‘Good luck today, be great on Get Up.’ The guy’s got a heart of gold and here I am on national TV killing him.”
Keep in mind that the couple had been married eight months when she made the comments.
Again, these are Dianna’s words. The tweet is straight from her Twitter account. She even promoted the video.
“Uh, look, we’re average together, but he makes me above-average because he married me,” she concluded, which also raised eyebrows at the time.
When a follower pointed out that Dianna might actually be implying her husband is below-average, she didn’t deny it.
Now Dianna is an aging 6, and that’s generous. She’s barely above average herself, but because she travels in elite media and sports circles, she quite naturally tends to overrate herself because she gets professional attention from famous Alphas. This is entirely normal; women don’t distinguish at all between attention they get for themselves and attention they get for their connections.
The point is: if you’re an average guy, do you really want to subject yourself to this humiliation? Do you really want to live with the awareness that she’s going to cheat on you in a heartbeat if one of those elite sports Alphas decides to go slumming it for an evening, or a weekend?
Frankly, he looks less average than she does. Which tends to underline the point about the female inability to accurately assess these things; she thinks her relative fame and access to elite men makes her “above average” even though there isn’t a man on the planet who would see it that way.
The reality is that when a husband or a wife levels up in some way, it’s necessary for the spouse to do so as well, or it will put stress on the relationship. That stress isn’t necessarily fatal, of course, but it’s going to be there. And since women are more likely to expect their men to level up a bit with age, it’s particularly damaging in those situations when it is the wife who does so.
I’m realizing that just because a woman is past peak doesn’t mean she’ll stop attempting to chase alphas. Attention shapes female behavior so much we usually don’t realize if what we’re doing even makes sense.
Over and over, I’ve seen deltas give attention when women complain. And women will make themselves into grumpy idiots for these dopamine hits. I think SSH is apparent in any male to female dynamic not only based on what he tolerates, but what he gives her attention for.
One of my friends complained a lot about disagreements with her male boss limiting her, but it was years before she got a new job. She lived far away from her family and was single. I think the attention from him, even though it was negative, was part of her staying so long.
The best marriages tend to be those where the woman feels like she's the one who got really lucky.