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Mugunga's avatar

Sage advice right here fellas.

GB's avatar
3hEdited

Absolutely this. I’m married with 4 kids to the same woman. I met her while in collage. We worked at the same company. I was focused on my path and was not interested in getting side tracked. Colleagues set us up, told me everyone was going to a bar. Only she and I showed up. She was not my type. She seemed like a typical small town woman coming to LA with stars in her eyes. I tested her interest. First date at aquarium for biology extra credit. Second date full day canyoneering the Santa Monica mountains in June. She told me that she was into that type of adventure. She showed up in typical immaculate matching athletic gear. Our adventure soon had her traversing rrock faces over pools of water, wading through waist deep pools, and scrambling over and around boulders the size of two story houses. She had never experienced any thing like it. She finished the hike looking like the bride of swamp thing. It gave us a hysterical origin story. She finishes the story by saying she got home, collapses, and can’t use her legs for a week.her dad hears the story and warns ,”that boy is not for you. He’s dangerous!”. And here I was just trying to accurately gauge her interest.

Joe Katzman's avatar

Her dad was your greatest wingman there. And you repaid him well.

Eileen's avatar
6hEdited

Yes! Just ask her out!

I had a dating fail pattern in my 20s. I would meet a delta I liked, we would text for a week or so, and I would say hey do you want to go somewhere.

Every time the delta would say he wasn’t sure where to go. With my loudly ticking biological clock I always thought it meant the guy wasn’t interested.

Then I read that you can start talking to the guy but wait for him to even mention going anywhere together for the proper male-female dynamic. So I did that with the next delta, and it took A MONTH of texting, talking, doing my hair and makeup for FaceTime, and he finally mentioned going somewhere together.

Married to him now and he said he really had trouble thinking of what kind of first date to ask me out for even though he liked me and wanted to ask me out a lot sooner. Looking back that’s probably what was going on with all those other deltas too.

I didn’t know the SSH. But my kids will! “Living with it is an applied skill. And like most applied skills. It’s best learned before you need it.”

Nick's avatar

met mine on a coffee date that I suggested. 10 years later, 2 kids

Optical's avatar
6hEdited

After a failed marriage , found myself at age 38 back in the dating scene. My approach to the "first date" was to invite her to participate in whatever I had planned to do that day. Oftentimes it was a hike or in winter a snowmobile run. But occasionally there were more out of the norm type activities. A memorable one was the strawberry picking date. That ended with the two of us in the backseat of her car.

Nick's avatar

what kind of man writes like this lol bro is this ai

Optical's avatar

What sort of guy uses lol?

Oh yeah..we know !

Brüder's avatar

Very true. A woman who is sufficiently into you will go out of her way to spend time with you, even if it screws up her life. She will work hard to decipher what you like to try to impress. It won't matter much if you're broke and struggling either. She will pay and rejoice at even hints of attention from you. She will learn how to cook if she can't already, so that she can bring you home cooked meals when you've got the worst bout of pneumonia of your life. She will buy gifts and pay for dates and travel. If she does something you don't like, she will apologize and make it up to you. Work and studies will become hard for her because she's constantly thinking about you. She will guard you jealously from other women. If you are coworkers, she'll go crying to HR if other women flirt with you, and then she'll go buy new lingerie and proceed to throw herself at you. She will crave having your babies.

If the emotions your presence and actions elicit in a woman are strong enough, she will do anything to get you and keep you. This is part of what women mean to when they say that their boyfriends or husbands don't know their "real me".

All that said, you have to be worth being into. Your masculine spirit has to be strong. If you're thinking or complaining about how unfair things are for men, and what a raw deal you've gotten, you're not strong no matter how true it is. If you're struggling to even get a date, developing your sense of empathy and viciously killing the lies about male and female nature you've been taught is a very good start.

Ransom of Perelandra's avatar

The future Mrs. Perelandra and I went mini golfing for our first date.

The Dark Herald's avatar

This takes me back. Back in the 1990s, a girl I knew shows up at my place with a carry out box of calamari lasagna from a fairly pricey restaurant I liked. She’d been on a date with this guy who had turned his wallet upside down for her. When the date was half over, she made excuses collected the food this guy had just bought for her. Brought it to me. Then talked smack about the guy while I was eating his food. When I was done eating we went to bed.

This is what women are capable of. And this is what spending all kinds of money on a first date gets you.

Aberaham's avatar

My wife, our first date was to a town festival/carnival. I didn't find out for several months she was deathly afraid of rollercoasters which we had pretty much done the entire day.

Mile High Bear's avatar

Now this post right here has to been one of the most important things a young man can believe, regularly practice and internalize. Listen up, Young Bucks. This one is for you. We aren't on a limited shelf life timeclock like females, but why waste your valuable time on an ingrate? Sage advice here, as usual.

BinKC's avatar

Living in the midwest, my old go-to first date was Sonic and a car wash. And by car wash, she would sit in the car and watch me manually spray the car, not the automatic. If she's into you, she'll wait or get nosy and poke thru ur car. If she's upset, dump her.

Coffee Guy Chris's avatar

A girlfriend of mine was content to go on a date to the gas station to get slushies. If that doesn’t indicate interest, I don’t know what does!

BodrevBodrev's avatar

This used to be normal. That's what the clowns are trying to take away. People don't hate then enough.

Kiyosaki Bear's avatar

I once took a girl on a date to go get a chocolate milk at a BP after i finished working out. We both sat at a tiny square table watching people pump gas as i drank a liter or nestle. She seriously didn't mind!

Al DuClur's avatar

When I was a freshman at college, my English teacher gave this advice to the men. There were few coffee shops in those days so the example he used was to take her to some place like Burger King. If she is into you, she won't care. It is a great way to read a woman.

Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

I teach young men and boys as young as five to never get married and never have kids because its not worth it.

We are winning..

Masked Menace's avatar

Go away, we're not buying what you're selling.

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Redwood Bear's avatar

This dude is either a bot, a retard or both.

Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

Your comment is why I support the mass immigration program and the introduction of islam and sharia law to the west to secure the rights of men and boys.

Redwood Bear's avatar

I was not speaking to you.

Jim's avatar

Hopefully they don’t take you seriously.

Missy's avatar

Don't take him seriously. I've seen him around Substack before, he's mentally ill somehow.

Jim's avatar

It’s hard to take him seriously. Thanks.

Vox Day's avatar

The retard is banned.

Rob's avatar

No. Getting married and having kids is not only worth the risk, it is required for the perpetuation of civilization. Go swallow your black-pills and keep your mouth shut because WE are winning and YOU are losing.

ScuzzaMan's avatar

We’ve been losing because the traitors among us persuaded most of us not to fight. They still occupy a lot of high ground but our big advantages are (1) reality is on our side, and (2) we’re clawing back territory while only a small minority are fighting. Organized western europeans conquered the world simply by squabbling amongst ourselves over it. One nation of us with a coherent culture cannot be defeated. What Ibn Khaldun called *asabiya* is how the united and energetic conquer the divided and dissolute. It is the bonds of hardships endured together, overcome together, and the lessons learned through this process. My contention is that success that endures is always a function of dealing with reality as it is.

Mile High Bear's avatar

Amen, Brother Rob. The future will be there for those who show up for it. Why condemn your genetic line, and selfishly disgrace your ancestors by choosing the path of the wuss? That is beyond Failure to Launch. Poor soul can't even manage to build the darn nest. I hope he defeats that satanic selfish impulse to basically fail at life and its purpose.