This post is inspired by something I heard Entropy say recently. Credit to him and check out his blog.
Let me drill this down a bit: I’m not saying that my interactions with women don’t have painful moments, or frustrating moments, or sad or angering or confusing moments. What I am saying is that I now know that I will never be permanently damaged by my relationship with any one woman (on an emotional level).
I bring this up because there’s all this talk in our society and in the media about the guy-character that guys fucked over by a woman in the worst way and he’s just an emotional wreck. I think it’s a terrible role-model to keep putting up for men in our society – that kind of self-indulgent sulking is not productive and it is not necessary!
I do absolutely acknowledge and believe that there is value in natural grieving when love is lost. I absolutely believe that there’s nothing wrong with experiencing the natural shock, pain, horror, sadness, etc. when a relationship that you care about falls apart. I don’t even think that there’s anything wrong with feeling it when you try to approach a woman and you just get shot down.
What I’m saying is that once you’ve experienced it [Click to Continue Reading…]
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