Random Relationship Derailment Thread

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suomalainen wrote:
Thu Mar 28, 2019 6:09 pm
false accusations of rape is not [a real problem]
A personal friend of mine was almost murdered when he was about 17 years old. A girl he had consensual sex with (with a witness!) turned out to have a boyfriend. Her boyfriend saw my friend dropping her off. She said my friend raped her. Her boyfriend was the vengeful type and decided he'd kill my friend. There was truly a good chance of it happening. The guy ended up killing someone else within a few weeks, at a gas station in view of cameras, just to save a few hundred dollars by coming out of their drug deal with both the drugs and the money.

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False accusations do happen. A friend of mine had a teenage daughter who in an attempt to gain solicitude from her BF, told him that her father was physically (not sexually) abusing her. Luckily, this was just a highly dramatic adolescent phase for her, and she and her father now have a very good relationship.

After they broke up, my SIL's second husband was accused of sexually molesting a GFs extremely handicapped child from a previous relationship. I did not like this guy, but it was gut-obvious to me that the charges were trumped up by the GF due to being hurt and fearful of losing his financial support when he dumped her. He was eventually fully cleared of any guilt, but not after spending time locked up, a great deal of money, and losing custody of his own child for over a year.

Humans of either gender can be weak, fearful, vindictive, or bat-shit enough to use any weapon at their disposal, and the law and/or court of public opinion can be powerful weapons.


ETA: An old BF who owned some rental properties in a dubious area was accused of installing spy cameras in the bathroom by one of his female tenants.

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Pence is a prepper in the context he's being brought up here. Of course, he's married and so presumably not going about with the same goals as the unmarried folks trying to navigate what I characterize as a minefield (the social environment). Prepping isn't a great approach for an optimistic accumulator.

Both genders are subject to irrational behavior in the realm of seeking partners. I don't have advice or insight as I've shifted into neutral wrt dating and just try to be myself in all settings, and passively avoid those where courtship is expected to erupt. The hope is that if it happens, it will happen because of a connection on a fundamental personal level that is based on accurate assessments rather than mating dances. 7wb5's assessment on a prior page is correct in that such approaches basically don't work (at least for M seeking F), leaving me in my happy solitude.

Like any other investment, reward without some amount of risk is unlikely.

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suomalainen wrote:
Thu Mar 28, 2019 6:09 pm
TL;DR - rape is a real problem; false accusations of rape is not.
To preempt any accusations that I am a "false accusations of rape is a problem" denier :lol: , I will clarify. I know that false accusations happen. I also know that when it happens to individual X, it is a real problem. But, I view it the same way I view [rare, but terrible disease]. Yes, [rare, but terrible disease] is a problem, but when deciding for myself how much attention to pay to it (and more broadly when society decides how much attention to pay to it), at some level I suppose I am utilitarian in that I would suggest that [terrible disease that is much more common] is "a real problem" or "a bigger problem".

Regardless of the utilitarian / generalized aspects, as it turns out, humans don't care about "problems". They care about "my problems". So, if you are hit by a terrible disease, common or rare, you will likely see it as a big problem. If you are raped or falsely accused of rape, you will likely see it as a big problem. I am not denying that.

I do, however, wish to be precise about my point around how people discuss these male/female concerns: IMHO in the context where we are generally discussing related problems, it is not fair to dismiss one (fairly large) problem while trumpeting a related (yet smaller) problem.

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IllinDave wrote:The hope is that if it happens, it will happen because of a connection on a fundamental personal level that is based on accurate assessments rather than mating dances.
Hmmm...I am visualizing two attractive people in suits handing each other the sort of file folders government accountants use over linen table cloth. :lol:

In some retro book I read, it was suggested that the very most a female might actively do without stepping out of the conventional passive/follow role in the dance would be to say something like "Gee, I wish a guy like you would ask me out some time." So, there must be a complementary "very least" a male could do behavior. Thinking. Thinking. Maybe just evincing very masculine appearance would be enough? No. That would still leave the female with what I think the WSPs referred to as "the burden of creativity." OTOH, if the Marlboro Man were to make just the smallest of mute gestures, maybe a two finger wave of "Come hither." or tip of head indicating "Follow me out", that might serve.

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7wb5, it's hard to place myself in a suit. I wore one at my mother's wake, and one for her funeral, and one to a job interview in 1998, but that's not me in day-to-day reality. It's an amusing image though. Finding Mrs iDave 2.0 isn't on my to-do list so I am not looking for it to work. I only made the comment about it not working so our compatriots in the conversation won't mistakenly infer I was advocating for it as a viable strategy for those actively in the game. Maybe your tips will help them though!

Myself, I have no idea what the minimum threshold is to trigger a relatively aggressive female except maybe spend a lot of time where people drink alcohol. I had a horrible stretch in college where 5 times in 3 years the relatively long-term girlfriends of some of my closest friends (two of the same friend 3 years apart) attempted to seduce me. Three of them just hopped right in my bed. Of the five only one was completely sober at the time and with her I was too naive to completely grok what she was up to (I suspected then confirmed later). For the record I'll note that a) I didn't take any of the up on the generous offers (though I regretted declining one of them in hindsight) and b) my overall experience is that the alcohol factor, while sometimes successful in the short run, does not often lend itself to healthy long-term situations.

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Man, that is horrible. Horny drunken girls jumping into your bed on an almost semi-annual basis for three years running. I can only imagine your suffering. Plus, at college, of all places. I hope you weren't reading your term papers at the time of the jumping, as I assume this was before computers and they would have had to been typed out again.

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Ha, if they were just any girls rather then by buddies' GFs it may have been fine, but alas, I valued my friendships. Not at all easy though. ;)

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That's an admirable quality.

But out of curiosity, are these college buddies still in your life? Because in my time, a buddy bringing a girl around just spared us the time of having to go out and find one for ourselves. As they say, propinquity propinqs. As a matter of fact, I don't think there was one girl who remained faithful to the original guy. I guess that's the benefit of having friends that don't value friendships.

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Jason wrote:
Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:42 am
That's an admirable quality.

But out of curiosity, are these college buddies still in your life?
Not in any meaningful way though I'm still in occasional contact with a couple of them. Call me a prude, but even if I were sent back in time knowing that, it's unlikely I'd do anything different.

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@IlliniDave:

lol- That's why I hardly ever drink-jk. Actually, even when I did drink a bit in college, I think blatantly seductive dancing was about as aggressive as I would get. Sometimes shy trumps hyper-sexual, and I'm pretty much a stickler for "code" myself.

Anyways, my mental exercise was meant to determine what was the very least a man could do GIVEN that all the females stick to their stereotypical assigned roles. Obviously, as your anecdote makes clear, reality varies a good deal from conventional stereotype. One of the young women I work with told me that she asked her husband to marry her, because that's the only way it was going to happen. She said "Don't get me wrong. He's a great husband now, but he would have just lived with his parents forever otherwise."

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Most people say that we are paired on the basis of similarities or opposites that are supposedly attracted. What do sociologists say about this?

What sociologists say about the matching of people in pairs will sound brutal, because it breaks certain beliefs that we have and in which women especially believe. First of all, we're not dealing with an accident. We do not go by chance to the essence, which is very much matched with various social parameters to us.

It means that…

I mean a person who has the same education, more or less similar level of physical attractiveness, similar level of earnings. We meet such people in specific places that sociology calls matrimonial markets or sexual markets. Once it happened in the neighborhood, men and women were getting together in places like school. Even during the times of the Polish People's Republic in the 1970s, the school was one of the main matrimonial markets and actually at the end of high school or technical school there was a case, because everyone was paired. Today it crumbled very much.

Does this mean that we no longer have a chance for a relationship?

It is not so bad. About 15 percent of high school students have someone to pair with. The rest does not work in this system at all, because people are looking for a partner between 25 and 30 years old. However, I do not envy ladies, especially students of humanities. Going to clubs when these couples are growing up after graduation does not make much sense either, and old strategies, where pharmacist ladies were looking for men at the neighboring medical department, also belong to the past.

And what about this well-known saying that opposites attract? People do not use such a strategy?

People are paired within their own group, what we call homogamy. This means that we are looking for partners on the basis of similarities according to social parameters (similar world view, education, earnings). If we associate with someone who differs from us, the life together is very difficult. Men are not looking for partners who are located in the social hierarchy higher than them. Only women who we say are hyperergic are doing it. In practice, this means that middle-class women are looking for slightly better-paid and somewhat better-educated men. This is one of those terrible information that women do not like to listen to. If a woman earns four million dollars a year, she will look for a gentleman who earns six. And she will not be looking for someone who has a sense of humor, is a nice teddy bear, if she is great for taking care of children, and at the same time does not work. She will be looking for someone who is better equipped than herself and this is an insurmountable trend, which means that we do not see exceptions to this trend in sociology at all.

Where should women look for these right men?

There is a problem in this, including the fact that 70 percent of Polish students are women and it is easy to count what percentage of men and women graduates, assuming that more than half of people aged 20-25 in these studies are . This means slightly hoping that 30 percent of women with a bachelor's or master's degree will not find a suitable partner. Ladies will have to look lower, among men who have a secondary education and lower earnings. Women do not do it. Once they did in the history of our culture after the First World War, when several million French men were killed. Only then did the French women look for slightly weaker and younger ones. British sociologists say today that a large percentage of women will not find partners at all or will not even look for them, and if they do, they will be relationships with men already busy who have wives or partners.

But if there are no such suitable and free men, maybe women should turn a blind eye and lower the bar when it comes to expectations of a dream partner?

This is something that spends the dream of eyelids not only for sociologists, but also for social politicians, because why are we reproducing so poorly? Because women do not find suitable partners for themselves. Those who have the right qualities to raise a child with them. Social politics comes to the question of why women do not associate with an educated man, but a poor earner, but with a greater sense of humor, which guarantees that we will spend time pleasantly? Women, however, do not change their preferences. Yes, they are looking for those who have a sense of humor, but it would be best if they were still rich. Women are now better educated and are doing well on the job market, and that means they can keep their households themselves. It also seems that in such a situation, they may have partners who are not at all wealthy ... Women, however, do not pay attention to such men. They add new ones to these old features. A sense of humor is added to the money, which reduces the number of partners to the matrimonial market.

It does not sound too romantic ...

Sociologists deprive all relationships of the spirit of Romanticism. For the first time, he did it in 1967 by William Kephart, who studied the marital preferences of women and men on one of the American campuses. To this end, he asked a historical question: If you found the perfect partner, but would you not love her, would you marry her? What do men answer? No, I do not love her, so I will not marry her. Kephart asked the same question to women: If you met a man who would be perfect, but you do not love him, would you marry him? The women answer: I do not know.

Without being in love, can I fall in love with time?

They are so-called adaptive matrimonial strategies. Sociology is convinced that people fall in love with the right people. Especially women fall in love with who they need. I always translate to my students, which causes unchanging laughter on one side and a slight embarrassment on the other that if we talk about any romantic sex, they are men. They fall in love and do not rationalize. Women rationalize and there is nothing strange about it. Why? They must, because they can not afford a child who is an investment and land with just anyone.

What can big differences between partners lead to?

Class differences destabilize marriage. Completely unstable will be, for example, a marriage where a woman is from a slightly higher class and earns more. Looking at statistical data, such a relationship has no chance of survival. If, however, a woman earns less, then the situation is reversed - the relationship will be permanent. Women rarely come out of such marriages. In turn, in situations where men lose their jobs or are less enterprising, women tend to end such relationships. This is happening worldwide, where divorces are permissible.

This is probably a lot of these differences. How many divorces do we have in Poland?

More than 30 out of 100 newly marriages are falling apart, and let us remember that getting a divorce in Poland is not so easy. The reason for divorce are often situations when there is an economic disproportion or differences in education. This is an interesting phenomenon, because 24 percent of couples in Poland are just marriages in which men are disadvantaged.

Difference of characters - this is supposedly the most frequent reason given by couples on a divorce application.

People think that the most common reason for divorce is betrayal, and this is completely untrue. Treason by women, especially those professionally active, is not treated as a threat. For the most part, it is simply about money or problems with the division of housework. These are the most common inflammatory foci. The men stood at the secondary school-leaving examination and women went to university. The risk of divorce is higher in such situations, because it is women who land in good workplaces, where colleagues have different parameters than their husbands, who usually deal with the TV remote control. Husbands are not interesting for their wives. However, the greatest risk of divorce is on the lowest floor of the social hierarchy, where, for example, a man goes to work somewhere in the saxis and leaves the family. There is also a woman's claim for divorce.

Where is not divorce?

Only in one class, where there is a lot of money involved, people are not fooling around. There are some 250,000 people in this class in Poland. Parents familiarize the right people with the right people. Mezalianse do not happen. It is also the only class where women are not professionally active. Men work. There are plenty of resources in the family for this. Divorce is therefore excluded. As in the fifteenth, sixteenth or seventeenth century, marriage is a financial and reproductive institution.


Who has worse in finding a partner today? Women or men?

I would say that everyone. In the middle of the twentieth century, someone who had an arm and a leg could easily have a husband. Today, women who are professionally active do not have time to engage in a relationship that is hard work. The media is adding to this, and especially the women's press emphasizes the slogans like: work on a relationship, etc. The more women do, the more men withdraw. Both sexes today have a hard time and for me as a member of the presidential team for social policy, it is clear that children will not be.

https://miastakobiet.pl/brutalny-rynek- ... r/13864254

* Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Szlendak
Associate professor, doctor habilitated, director of the Institute of Sociology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He examines the transformation of customs in Western culture, especially in Polish culture and biosocial determinants of sex life.

EDIT:
ooops. this guy considers country with average monthly wage 400$ as "western".
this article feels (unfortunately) like joke-ception :lol: :x :cry:

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Very interesting interview. Worth remembering though that it's not 100% black and white as the interviewee pictures it and there are tons of exceptions IRL, i.e. plenty of women mating 'down'. However, I think his basic premise is sound. Since the average young woman's social status is/will soon be higher than that of the average young man, and women look to mate 'equal or up' while men 'equal or down', there is no overlap for a significant part of the population. I witness this in my workplace where there are very intelligent, high earning young women who are long term singles and not because they want to.

Still, as much as it's a problem on a societal scale, it's less of an issue on an individual scale where one only needs to find a single match.

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@Stahlmann: I couldn't read the article since I am only 1/4 4th generation Polish-American, so my vocabulary is around 10 words, mostly related to food.

However, I noted in your discussion of the topic that you are apparently not aware of some relevant related research which came to the highly startling conclusion that men are quite willing and wanting to date "equal or up" on the basis of physical appearance. In fact, due to higher level of connection between visual and emotional centers of brain, males are much more likely than females to literally fall in love "at first sight." Therefore,
if we talk about any romantic sex, they are men. They fall in love and do not rationalize.
is true, but only in a very narrow, superficial sense of the "romantic" which is equivalent to weakness for the "pretty." IOW, although the majority of individuals in both genders claim to "shop" for traits such as honesty, kindness, and virtue, they both "buy" primarily for other qualities. Although sometimes while in fog of irrational exuberance/limerence they will assign these traits to their current love object, as in "When a man loves a woman, she can do no wrong."

Thus, my sister's friend who was very successful attorney and also quite over-weight was actually much more locked out of the dating market than a very good looking basement dwelling young man. At least an extremely homely young man has the option of attempting to compete on the basis of successful provider/protector, whereas all that striving will actually make the matrimonial prospects for a homely young woman even worse.

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[in case you're pesky journalist who is interested in destroying somebody's career, at least contact Stahlmann personally to get his current views on intra gender relationships]

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7Wannabe5 wrote:
Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:24 am
I would like to suggest that it is important to differentiate between two very different modes of functioning which might be referred to as Sugar Baby vs Lentil Baby. A Sugar Baby would be the stereotypical individual who trades youth, beauty, charm, and other associated skills for the posh lifestyle provided by the significant financial resources of another individual. OTOH, a Lentil Baby is the extremely rare individual who consequent to much study in the realms of home economics, perma-culture, finance, modern relationship and systems theory, is able to readily help another individual to reduce personal resource waste and improve over all quality of lifestyle through intelligent process resembling beneficial symbiosis, such as occurs in the fixing of nitrogen by bacteria in the soil gathering near the root nodules of leguminous plants.

For example, in our affluent culture it is highly unlikely to encounter a heterosexual man over the age of 40 who is sharing a bed or a bedroom with another individual in order to save on housing costs. So, from the perspective of a Lentil Baby this is as obviously a situation indicative of resource waste as recyclable beer cans left littered about a walking trail. If this open loop were to be closed by inserting her warm body into this cold wasted bed space, then the thermostat might even be set down by approximately 4 degrees! Even greater resource savings may accrue due to savings on electricity necessary to broadcast internet porn, heart and prostate healthy workout provided reducing future need for expensive pharmaceuticals and surgeries, and expenses related to ownership of non-human pet to provide affectionate touch.

Obviously, when an individual gives fair consideration to the value of all these benefits accrued in relationship to Lentil Baby, it is highly possible he will insist on, at the very least, taking her out for pancakes at some nearby diner the following morning. However, the amazing skill set of a Lentil Baby is such that it is very much within the realm of possibility that she could even cook breakfast for both of them making use of whatever happens to be in his kitchen at the moment!!!! Etc. etc. etc. ...the part where she convinces him that he could retire early and live on his blueberry covered acreage in the shed built for $3500 by some Amish guys.

Has anyone formulated lentil romantic partner?
I need some help for romantic dating process.
Thanks in advance for theoretical model.

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Weird coincidence that you dug up this post of mine just now. I actually was taken out to breakfast by the owner of the blueberry-covered acreage yesterday, and he told me that is now his intention to retire relatively early and live in his $3500 Amish-built shed (with winter exit to someplace much warmer.) So, the upside of this strategy is that you can make use of it to maybe at least influence another individual (or 3)up a level or two on the ERE Wheaton scale, and help conserve part of a unique eco-system. The downside of this strategy, which Jin+ Guice** also addresses in his delightful interview with AxelHeyst, is that it is even worse than Unemployable's "house-sitting" strategy* in terms of the possibility of gaps of no coverage. And it also possible that during such a gap of no coverage, you may experience a series of unfortunate events, such as being blighted with Crohn's disease which will further impede your ability to move fluidly from branch to branch, thus finding yourself "stuck" actually having to pay $550/month for your own tiny apartment :(

Anyways, I would say the basic way you make it work is that you exhibit behavior that never blocks and at least sometimes promotes progress up Maslow's ladder for the other party(ies) involved. However, it is also very important that you are able to exhibit such behaviors in a manner that also aids your progress. For instance, cooking food for somebody else at the same time you prepare food for yourself is highly efficient, but cuddling with somebody you don't want to cuddle with for shared body warmth would be highly inefficient. You are looking for the Win-Win from a very open, flexible, and curious perspective.

*It is likely better than house-sitting strategy in terms of length of tenure.
**Since Jin+Guice and I seem to be the biggest advocates of this strategy, it might be an eNTP thing.

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Well, I have emotional problem with single mothers who change their mating strategy after having kids AND it's like that bad boy, drug user, not reasonable genes are passed on and mine quiet, reasonable, guy aren't.

BTW, as for "human"/higher antinatalistic side it doesnt' bother me... maybe a bit, I need quiet people who gonna work based on my capital or dutifull citizens who gonna put in for state pension system... but I feel somekind "animalistic" pain in my abdonmen hearing single mothers' stories.

Emotional problem undestood as resentment that somebody had fun when I didn't have AND it was socially and timely possible AND it's difficult to replicate this later in life AND it costs a lot of money (sugar babies, prostitutes...) AND/OR it's on the border of societal expectations (I don't mind dating 20's in my 30's but it isn't so easy to pick up them in comparison what is said by society) AND provider role isn't as fun as it's told to males (99 percent of male Americans hate their jobs as I once found out in booklet which recommended to become parent to find meaning in life :roll: :cry: ).

Your take on this?

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Stahlmann wrote:Your take on this?
You've got some work to do.


Okay, take this with a grain of salt, because I am in one of my more nihilistic moods. Ultimately, what other humans of either/any gender or inclination find sexually attractive is pretty meaningless. I mean, if you were a fruit fly, there would be something about some other fruit flies that you would find attractive. If you were a hippo, you would find other hippos to be attractive. Etc.

Now, imagine that you are an intelligent alien from another galaxy sent to Earth to research what human heterosexual females find attractive when sexually mating. Pretend like you are the sort of dedicated researcher who is willing to read original documents actually written by human heterosexual females. Compile your results.

Once you have done your research, and maybe even developed a bit of insight and empathy, consider whether you are up to the task of providing a woman with what she really wants (as deeply opposed to what you think she ought to know she needs or "deserves".) Maybe you will decide that it's not worth the effort. That's okay. Trust me, I sometimes very much feel that way when it comes to that-which-is-what-the-grouchy-old-men-want-in-general-and-particular. Basically, what it comes down to is that you have to get in touch with how much pleasure it would give you to truly bring pleasure to another human, with all your need for being otherwise validated put aside.

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Stahlmann wrote:
Wed Jun 28, 2023 5:05 am
Your take on this?
Stahlmann I recall you once said you suspected you might have a form of Aspergers/high functioning autism. Have you been tested for this ?

https://psychology-tools.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/

People, especially men, with aspergers often never 'get' how relationships work, as their brains are wired differently. That doesn't necessarily mean they can't form successful relationships, but it can be a struggle for them, even on the milder end of the spectrum.

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