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DwarvenAllFather's avatar

This is why I don't bother with them, they aren't worth my effort and I can't make them what they aren't nor ever will be.

majibo's avatar

Stumbling upon Rian after losing a relationship was one of the hardest things I had to accept.

Francisco d’Anconia's avatar

I keep seeing people reposting this and reading it again and every time I think of another moment that my woman criticized me for that I know for a fact that everyone in the room loved. Spitballs at a train. This is a great way of thinking about work shit too.

Easy Eddie's avatar

If reacting to her actions makes you a little bitch, then the action of not reacting makes you an asshole which, to her, is attractive.

Fulton's avatar

Powerful mental model here. What does "OG author" mean?

Georgi Boorman's avatar

Why is it that the hypothetical women in your posts always sound juvenile? I bet managing a woman with a teenage mentality IS hard, but adults don't behave or think this way.

Rian Stone's avatar

I'm not making them up. They are real stories from real men, collected over 12 years. If they were sexually satisfied and happy, they wouldn't write the stories down.

So I write about the problem cases, because that's who needs them.

> adults don't behave or think this way.

I don't think or behave this way. You don't behave or think this way. But most people do. You can call it being an adult if you want, but I think you underestimate how shitty most people are to each other and themselves.

Even if you or I consider ourselves the average man and woman (which I don't) that would mean half the people out there are worse than us. that's a lot.

Keep in mind, the OG author of this had his wife up and decide to be a lesbian one day

Georgi Boorman's avatar

Granted, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. But you really think most women are this shitty at relationships, this emotionally and socially stunted? That's just...my heart is a pit of sadness.

Vrun's avatar

You're a real, mature, emotionally intelligent woman. This does not apply to you.

B Squared's avatar

The divorce rate is roughly 50% and more than 70% of divorces are filed by wives. You’re going to say men are the cause of failed marriages 70% of the time? If you ask a marriage counselor how often it’s the wife who needs to “change” to make the marriage “work,” their eyes will dart around as they’re coming up with a response to deflect. The lesbian divorce rate is about 75% - so women are divorcing women more frequently than they’re divorcing men. The lowest divorce rate? Gay men.

I mean I could go on for literally hours. If you already know how you feel about the empirical evidence I’m rattling off, there’s no point in me going on

Georgi Boorman's avatar

Your points are well taken.

Rrrrrrrricky's avatar

He's not talking about you, he's talking about those other h03s

James's avatar

Really relevant post