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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:

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?

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.

@Lucasxp64 nice job. First time is definitely going to be super exciting, you'll probably be thinking about it for a while. Once you come down a bit, just make sure you're still getting back out there.

The release of the hostages does not mean the broader problems in this conflict are healing.

Oneness is inescapable.

You could use skool.com. That would be an easy way to get started. Get traffic by promoting it on social media.

Did your ophthalmologist not give you any sort of explanation or recommendations?

The key is to come from a place of relative strength, not weakness. A little bit of loneliness is okay. But don't give away your power. She wants to see you as your magnetic self, not some desperate guy begging for her to like you.

The horror

The same way as when you didn't know that.

It can go both ways. You might have some toxic beliefs here. But also, don't forget that everything we do here is very much extraordinary. This is not ordinary work for ordinary people who want ordinary results. You may just be someone who wants more than ordinary. In which case the real healing here is for you would be to accept that and stop letting people gaslight you into being a normie. Also, you are doing very well for someone who is 18. Be very patient with yourself, this is a long journey.

We do, and we don't. Both are true depending on how you look at it.

@Leo Gura I am interested but I'm curious about the legality of it. How can it be fully legal?

Of course. But most guys are way underperforming on the attractive metric. So focus on that first.

What else have you tried? Music? Massage? Candles? Porn?

Hard to say. If you feel like it's emotional numbing on top of physical, then there might be some trauma for you to explore. You should not be going emotionally numb around attractive women in the bedroom. Your mind should be entering a state of seduction and desire. I'd worry more about that and less about the erection.