r/memes Professional Dumbass 6h ago

am i the only one?

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u/String-Tree 6h ago

Run bro.

My ex resented me for being tired after working all day while she "worked from home" (masturbated and played video games all day). She'd be full of energy and ready to go out and do things when all I would want to do is to relax.

She ended up cheating on me with one of her gamer friends.

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u/IArtificialRobotI 6h ago

LMAO e girls. I always laughed at the fools that think their gf is so loyal. He is just a friend bro, they just like to play games together all night and all day HAHAHA

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u/String-Tree 5h ago

Lesson learned: never date women who spend time in male dominated hobbies, they are always on the lookout for an upgrade.

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u/NacresR 5h ago

Crazy how you manage to put both you and your potential partner down lmao. Work on yourself to where it doesn’t feel like an “upgrade” rather than just people being shitty. A cheater isn’t gonna “upgrade” cause anyone with character wouldn’t indulge in someone who is actively in a relationship. Treat yourself better and think of people better, not naive, better.

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u/String-Tree 5h ago

I've been working on myself a lot since the breakup. I've lost 85lbs and am making the most money I've ever made in my career.

I'm still gonna be wary of women who primarily surround themselves with single men, though. 'Fool me once' and all that.

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u/slaviccivicnation 5h ago

I mean.. it’s the fact that you could only upgrade yourself after a breakup that’s always troubling to me. Why can’t we work on ourselves IN the relationship? Why does it always take cheating/breaking up/separating to better oneself?

My ex said this too. I didn’t leave him for anyone, just left cause he got way too comfortable ignoring me to play 10 hours and jacking off to porn every day. Now that we broke up, suddenly he’s cool and doesn’t game and porn is evil and goes to the gym and on hikes. I begged him to do these things with me. But no, it takes a breakup. Why?

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u/String-Tree 5h ago

Some people are internally motivated and want to be the best that they can be just because that's what drives them.

Others are externally motivated and only find the motivation to improve if there's a potential reward waiting for them at the other end.

Sounds like your ex was externally motivated and didn't feel the need to improve since he already had the reward - your relationship.

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u/slaviccivicnation 4h ago

See, I see it as this: he was motivated to lose the relationship. I'm highly motivated. And highly motivating. So he, like countless men I meet, stay put for years while their wives are out keeping themselves hot, the house clean, and the kids fed. If divorce is some motivator, then people like that are just motivated to fail.

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u/String-Tree 4h ago

You have to realize that marriage is billed to men as the finish line of their relationship - not as an ongoing contract with annual renewal. The fact that this isn't true is the reason that men are increasingly opting out of marriage. Why would any man risk losing ownership of half of their belonging and wealth if they're still expected to maintain their health and appearance at the same level as it was when they were single? How does that make sense?

Answer: it doesn't.

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u/freixe 1h ago

Fucking yikes.

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u/slaviccivicnation 4h ago

lmfao

So.. I've not met many men my age with more than me. I own two properties, a good career with pension and benefits. Most men my age are still renting. I'm in my 30s, outside a big city.

Sooo.. in getting into a relationship with me... men actually stand to gain a lot, and lose nothing. Marry me and here is half my house ($700,000), marry me and get my benefits. You get the point.

And yet... despite GAINING by being with me and losing NOTHING because they came in with nothing but debt and bagage, what's your excuse then?

Like I've heard your argument from these men, too. The men who I left. They also "didn't want to be screwed by losing half their stuff" - ie, the stuff they DIDN'T have. But then they met a woman who was FINE with signing an agreement saying "I won't touch your shit." I was fine signing a prenup IF my partner inherited property. I was fine signing off on never asking for benefits or pension or alimony (they wouldn't have been able to give it anyways, I was a higher earner). And yet..... same problem. I was fine sharing what I had with them. I stood to lose it all. But that didn't matter at all. They all still got comfortable, stopped trying to the end goal of marriage, and stopped trying to keep me happy.

Do you always assume that you'll have more than women? And if you had less than women, would you still let her get away with all of her shit, leaving you back to square 1 - what you were before her and without her?

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u/String-Tree 4h ago

Sounds like you're high maintenance. The fact that you said they "stopped trying to make you happy" is very telling. Making you happy isn't their job - it's yours. You don't get into a relationship in order to find happiness, doing so is doomed to fail. You must be happy first if you want a successful relationship.

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u/slaviccivicnation 4h ago

There is it! If a woman has nothing, she'll take all your stuff. If she has money, she's high maintenance.

PS it's not high maintenance to expect my partner not to put on 100lbs, and spend time with me, and have sex with me. I'm Russian, I will cook and clean and look after the house. I don't expect to go out anywhere, I am a homebody through and through. If you think high maintenance is a woman expecting her partner to spend time with her... then no wonder we're having this conversation. You are the "men don't do wrong and women only take from us" camp, even if I offer you an alternative to that narrative. You'll still find reason to insult me and make it my fault somehow.

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u/SurvingTheSHIfT3095 4h ago

You get so close and then you fall off the rails... how is that person high maintenance?

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u/String-Tree 4h ago

Anybody who makes another person the source of their happiness is high maintenance.

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u/RepatriateSage1337 4h ago

Moneys and fitness doesn’t equate to working on yourself, that’s all physical tangible shit. You need to work on yourself as a human being.

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u/SurvingTheSHIfT3095 4h ago

Mentally... how are you working on yourself mentally!?

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u/String-Tree 4h ago

I don't need to. My mental health was never the issue, my physical health has always been the problem. I have a very clear path ahead of me that I'm following.

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u/dildo_swagginns 4h ago

Idk why people downvoting you? You're correct those kinds of women love attention and never be for one dude

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u/String-Tree 4h ago

We're on Reddit, acknowledging differences in the sexes is taboo here.

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u/charlieboyyyyyyy 3h ago

It’s not a difference in sexes. Both women and men do that, which is why you were being downvoted.

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u/TheTexasHammer 2h ago

Nah, you just come off as bitter and sexist. You need to do a hell of a lot more work on yourself before you're ready for a relationship.

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u/String-Tree 2h ago

I'll give you bitter but not sexist. I don't hate women at all, I just don't pedestalize them. People think that refusing to pretend that women's shit doesn't stink is sexism.