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26 is an ideal time. You can ask if it's too late when you're 46.

Yeah bro, you were coasting on social circles that society set up for you as a kid. That shit is over now. In the real world, you have to build what you want. No one is just going to hand you an exceptional dating life. Ask yourself: if the future love of my life was watching my behavior right now, what would she think? Would she see a man she could potentially surrender to take care of her? Or someone pining for the good ol' days when things were easier and taken care of for you? Your complaining is not going to feed her children. Or protect her in a violent situation. Either find a way to produce results or accept that you're just not cut out for this.

A couple things: 1) Consider that you might not be getting the girl to invest enough during your initial approaches / dates. If she is invested, she will be putting in some effort. So work on qualifying more and letting her come to you 2) Do you enjoy being a man? Your post reads somewhat like you rather be a woman. You should get a deep satisfaction out of being in your masculine polarity. It should not feel like a chore, although I understand it comes with challenges 3) Dating is very competitive and difficult if you want top results. Either be willing to compete or lower your standards

There is a third option besides traditional patriarchy and modern progressive hyper-egalitarianism. People keep thinking it has to be one or the other.

@trenton do what you need to do with your family and PTSD situation. That sounds very challenging and I don't know anything about living under those circumstances. But if you want to know what coming from a place strength looks like, for me it comes down to wanting what is best for the women in my life. Which means honoring their needs. Notice that if you are weak and desperate, you actually cannot properly care about her needs because you are so focused on yourself and your needs. And she will often see that. You should be able to let any woman, at anytime, walk out of your life if her heart has closed to you. Or if she would be better served leaving you. That's real relational integrity, but it's also power. If you do that, you will actually lose some women. This not some technique that you do to secretly get them to stay. No, you are actually never going to see them again. Good. That's what makes the stakes real. But at the same time, the relationships you have will be stronger because they will also be more real. It doesn't take having a hundred girls blowing up your phone to gain this sense of abundance either. That might help, but either way it's a mindset you have to develop.

Because they are regurgitating things that sound deep and spiritual.

Trump commutes George Santos' prison sentence:

That is his lowest poll among many that show higher though: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

Several things can be true: 1) Most of society is still in a very low state of development 2) Progressives can do stupid things that cause unnecessary blowback / resistance 3) Society would be at a lower state of development without progressives, not higher 4) Progressives need to acknowledge when they cause blowback without gaslighting themselves that they are always the problem

Does it suck, or does it keep you sane?

@ladelle Some considerations: 1) You may not know you're God as deeply as you believe you do 2) God can and does dream it is broke 3) God is not biased towards enjoyment 4) Not being broke still requires taking proper action within the dream Be a little bit more pragmatic. Don't expect awakening to solve all your problems.

The S-word is not a model.

This is false, because all those "more urgent issues" are born out of the same low levels of development. Racism is partially how you get things like ethnic cleansing. Is ethinic cleansing not an urgent enough issue? Whatever backlash there has been to progressivism is peanuts compared to how racist and hateful people already were. Now it's just being exposed.

Definitely some good stuff here, nice find.

Those are not nonsense issues at all. They are part of what fundamentally separates modern progressives and conservatives.