Would it be fun to go hunting when the deer are placed right in front of you?

Would it be fun to buy a jigsaw puzzle that is already solved?

Would it be fun to have a Rubik's Cube that automatically solved itself?

Would it be fun to play baseball or softball with a tee as an adult?

Would basketball be fun if the rim was 4 feet tall?

Would playing tag at the playground be fun if everyone ran toward whoever was "it"?

Would playing an FPS video game be fun if you were invincible and all your bullets killed everyone with one shot?

Would building shit with LEGOs be fun if everything was automatically built for you?

Would playing Marco Polo be fun with your eyes open?

Would playing pool be fun if the pockets were 3 feet wide?

Would a crossword puzzle be fun if most of the letters were already filled in?

Would laser tag be fun if you covered up your sensors?

Would mini golf be fun if the hole were 10 feet wide?

Would running a marathon be fun if you did it on a motorcycle?

Would rock climbing be fun if the rocks were replaced with a staircase and a handrail?

Would Mario be fun if he could just fly over the entire level?

What is your point?

Note how all the scenarios I posed, involved an activity in which the challenge is taken out of things, which ultimately defeats the purpose and appeal of it.

What does that have to do with TRP?

Men are brainwashed to think that on Valentine's Day(as well as other holidays like Christmas and Birthdays), the key to a woman's affection is to buy her shit. I saw a commercial the other day. The ad featured a 4/10 girl flirting with some dude in a high school setting. So the dude goes out and buys her all this shit like chocolates and balloons and stuffed animals and puts it in her locker. She opens it and is filled with glee, then she turns around and there is our chump standing there with even more shit in his hands to give to her.

That's not real life. Don't be that guy. I've been that guy. 8 years ago tomorrow, I bought flowers and chocolates for a girl I had been friends with for maybe 2 or 3 weeks, wasn't even dating or fucking, thinking that would be the way to win her over. All I got was a simple thanks and a hug and then she pretty much ghosted me from there on out. The sad part is that I doubled down on that strategy the next year, and the year after that, with different women, and the same results. No sex. No date. Just a hug and thank you. Maybe if you are in an established LTR, that level of gift giving might work. But most people who are coming here are probably trying to find a way to win over their oneitis that is not their girlfriend, who they are not dating, and who they have never fucked. Simply a woman they are orbiting.

Men, the solution is not to buy her shit. Not to invest in her. I quote Chateau Heartiste:

Women WANT to work for a man’s interest. A man’s respect. A man’s LOVE. A man who challenges women is a man who is rewarded with women’s zeal to please. This is the nature of women.

By overinvesting in a woman, buying her shit, freely giving up your resources and affection to her without her having to work for it - you are taking away the entire appeal of pursuing a man for a woman. Think of it this way. Women view men like hunters view their prey. If the prey walked right up to the hunter's spot and put a bullseye on its back, hunting wouldn't be so fun, would it? Overinvesting in a woman is the same way. They want to work for your love and respect and interest. If you freely give it away to her, then she will believe your love, respect and interest holds zero value, because there was zero challenge in obtaining it. Then, they lose their attraction because they feel like what you have to give is worthless.

A man who freely/cheaply gives away his resources and interest and commitment is the equivalent of a woman who freely/cheaply gives away access to her sexual reproductive organs. In otherwise, its the male equivalent of a whore. Everything you do for a woman should be "paid for" in advance and something she "earned".

So you are on this sub because you have oneitis for a girl and want tomorrow(Valentine's Day) to be a special day. What should you do? Meet up with a girl if you want to - but treat it like its any other day or night. Do not make it special. Do not think that because its Valentine's Day, you have to do something special or take the extra step. Don't pay for her shit. Don't buy her flowers or chocolates or any other cliche Valentine's Day item.

This isn't just Valentine's Day advice. I am just posting it now, because we are going to have a lot of traffic to this sub because thirsty men afraid of being lonely are looking for what to do on Valentine's Day to finally win their oneitis's heart. The advice is a same - make a girl work for your interest. Make her work for your time. Make her work for your affection. Reward her when necessary(but make sure to follow the 2/3 rule when rewarding her).

Don't fall into the media/society/corporate brainwashing trap that the key to winning a woman over is to buy her shit, invest in her, connect with her emotionally, "communicate", "be there for her" and other blue pilled nonsense.