BR you're the best man. Responses in [COLOR="Navy"]BLUE[/COLOR]
[QUOTE=Bull Run;41090]Dude you just described EXACTLY what I was talking about.
[COLOR=red]1. I believe deep down that I'm entitled to a hot meal when I come home from work from the wife.[/COLOR]
Your expectation, which you have no doubt made clear to her at some point. Otherwise how could you ever expect her to fulfill said expectation?
[COLOR="Navy"]Not really, one of my core beliefs is that I'm not a woman's babysitter. I'm not micro-managing her. She can figure out what kind of man I am for herself. Women are very good at that, in fact they get off on trying to figure you out. Sometimes she's just gonna step on a land mine and learn the hard way when she crosses a line.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]2. Wife hasn't cooked the meal. Realizing that conlict with my core belief, I am angry.[/COLOR]
Non-compliance. Again, if she DIDN'T cook the meal then you must have told her your expecation to have the meal cooked otherwise you have no authority to be angry.[COLOR="Navy"]See above. I will get angry, even if I haven't laid down the law, and I leave it up to her to react/adapt/learn.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]3. I yell at wife to cook the damn meal.[/COLOR]
PUNISHMENT. Duh...[COLOR="Navy"]Yeah but it's not like the thought crosses my mind "this is punishment, bitch"... I just feel like the world ain't right because I don't have dinner, and I believe I should have dinner, and I get angry to correct the imbalance in the world.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]4. I'm not apologetic for my actions. My core beliefs are solid. This causes wife to become more attracted to me as a man.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Navy"]I'm not apologetic because I'm not going to compromise my core values. Like you said, I know who I am, and what I want. Get on board or get off the bus.[/COLOR]
You're not apologetic because you know that your authority should not ever be questioned. You're the man, you want what you want, and you deserve to get exactly that assuming you lead, provide, protect, and provide her with her needs as well (I would say wants but that's not the same as a need). By acting like the man, you build attraction because you are being exactly what a woman wants: a MAN.
Seriously man, you basically said exactly what I was talking about but in a different way.
[COLOR="Navy"]That happens. Great minds think alike bro.[/COLOR]
AND, the most dangerous advice you can ever give is to say "just be yourself." That's horrible advice because pretty much all men are socially dysfunctional, especially in the Community. If we weren't socially dysfunctional and didn't know how to treat other people the way a man should treat them then we wouldn't be in the Community.
Leave that "just be yourself" advice at home man. Fact is that "yourself" is fucking broken...be someone else.[/QUOTE]
[COLOR="Navy"]But if you follow what I'm saying with my 4 step approach, then "being yourself" is exactly what you are doing. The problem with most guys is that they are NOT being themselves. And by that I mean they are not being TRUE to themselves...perhaps a better way to word it.
KNOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE
BE TRUE TO WHAT YOU BELIEVE
ACT ON YOUR FEELINGS
DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR BELIEFS AND FEELINGS
That pretty much summarizes what "be yourself" means in my mind.
The problem with guys that makes them "dysfunctional" is that they
A.) Have no idea what they want/believe/stand for
B.) Compromise their beliefs for a woman
C.) Change themselves for a woman, become "yes-men" nincompoops
D.) Don't express themselves, have no color or emotion or personality
Now if people can't take away any value from that, not my problem. Doesn't make it any less true. I'm not a babysitter.[/COLOR]
