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Why You Shouldn’t Take Relationship Advice From Players

BlackDragon
August 22, 2016

Years ago there was a decently funny movie called Showtime starring Robert DeNiro and Eddie Murphy. They played two cops forced to be in a cop TV show. Murphy was very excited because he wanted to be an actor. DeNiro was upset and thought it was a waste of time, but had no choice.

During the filming of the cop show, the producers hire William Shatner, portraying a fictionalized version of himself, to teach the two cops how to act like TV cops, because of Shatnerâs experience playing TJ Hooker back in the 80s.

Shatner does things like show them how to taste cocaine with your tongue to make sure itâs real. DeNiro, a real cop, demonstrates how stupid this is, because it could be cyanide, ricin, anthrax or other poison. Shatner spends lots of time showing the two cops how to do âhood jumping,â jumping onto the hood of a car. DeNiro points out that itâs a stupid, useless and dangerous âskillâ that no real cop would ever need to use. On and on this goes.

In other words, Shatner teaches the two cops skills and techniques that feel good and look good to others, but donât actually work in the real world. Moreover, in many cases, these things were not only useless, but dangerous.

While DeNiro is pointing all of this out, Eddie Murphy ignores all of it, is hugely excited and a big fan of Shatner. He slurps up all of Shatnerâs stupid âadviceâ with gusto and full agreement, because being a fake TV cop is much more exciting than real police work, which is often boring and tedious. Being a TV cop also looks more impressive to friends, family, and the public, which, being very outcome dependent, is important to Murphy.

Let’s switch to another illustration. Tony Robbins has been a distant mentor for me for many years. I respect him and think he has really good stuff to teach. His advice on NLP, changing your emotional state and physiology, and general success is among the best Iâve ever read/heard. Iâve used those techniques in my own life and received good results from it.

As many of you already know, Tony Robbins became very famous for this advice in the early 90s. He made hundreds of millions of dollars and became a household name. This is great, and he deserves his money. Heâs helped a lot of people, including me.

There was just one problem. Once he became this famous, he started giving advice about other things outside his wheelhouse of NLP and general success principles. As just a few examples…

1. He started giving advice regarding how to marry the woman of your dreams and stay married forever. Then he got divorced. Oops.

2. He started giving advice on time management. I purchased his time management program and it was terrible. Iâm a time management expert myself, and I can tell you for a fact his time management advice was ridiculous.

3. He started giving advice on investing. I purchased one of his investment advice CDs, listened to it, and puked. I seriously wanted my money back. It was the single worst audio program on investing Iâve ever heard in my life. His entire advice was pretty much, âbuy stocks.â Jesus.

When this was happening, I was shocked that a guy with such quality information started putting out such garbage. Only later did I realize why: since he was now famous for giving one set of advice, he was taking advantage of this and was now giving out advice he didnât know anything about. So of course it sucked and didnât work.

Over the years Iâve seen many other gurus in many areas of self improvement do the same thing; get notoriety for giving advice about A, which is good, then start giving advice about B, C, and D, which is terrible and doesnât work.

Since moving into the self improvement space myself many years ago, I’ve done my very best to not make this mistake. For those of you who have been following my work for many years, you know I have been very careful not to give advice about things I know nothing about, even when Iâm asked, which happens somewhat often.

When I started giving PUA advice, I stuck very closely to the three areas I knew well, and didnât talk much about anything else. These were (and to a degree still are):

1. Online dating

2. Nonmonogamous relationships

3. Older men dating younger women

Thatâs it. During those years, and to this day, when discussing dating/relationship topics, Iâve only spoken about those three areas and kept any discussion outside of those areas minimal. Iâve never talked about night game because Iâve never done it. Iâve barely talked about daygame since I did it briefly many years ago, but donât consider myself an expert. I never give relationship advice to men in monogamous relationships because I am not qualified to give such advice. Etc.

You may argue that my advice in those three areas can apply to other areas I’m not focused in. That’s true to a degree, but it doesn’t matter. I’ve stuck with just those three areas, since I didnât want to do a âTony Robbinsâ and start giving advice about some area I didnât know much about just because Iâm good with online dating and open/poly relationships.

This principle of mine extends into my business life, where as a consultant I give time management advice, business management advice, and marketing advice. But thatâs it. I never give advice regarding things like human resources, inventory management, or team building. I donât know about these things, so I keep my mouth shut about them, even when Iâm asked about them, which I often am.

If youâve followed me for a long time, you know that when someone asks me for advice on a topic that I have no expertise in, I will say, âI really donât know anything about that, you should ask someone else.â This is done on purpose.

Getting Advice from Players Regarding Relationships

For the past 10 years, I have seen men in the PUA community, and now the manosphere, who are really good at laying lots of chicks, suddenly turn around and give relationship advice. This advice is wrong almost 100% of the time. That figure is not an exaggeration. When a player whoâs good at banging lots of chicks via one night stands or very short term fuck buddy stints gives you advice regarding ongoing relationships or marriage, itâs dead wrong almost 100% of the time. He will tell you things that will simply result in drama, conflict, confusion, cheating, and breakups or divorces.

It wonât seem like the advice is wrong. After all, clearly this guy understands women, right? Clearly heâs successful with women, right? Clearly this guy is Alpha, right? So his advice about relationships or marriage should be accurate, right?

Wrong.

As Iâve talked about before, pickup/getting laid and relationships are two completely different skill sets. Theyâre both about women, but that doesnât mean they arenât very different. Networking and programming are both about computers, but theyâre both radically different skills. You donât want your IT networking guy writing software for you, just like you would never put a software developer in charge of your corporate computer network. Two different skills.

The proof is all around you. Famous players, like Mystery, Neil Strauss, Adam Lyons, and countless others you and I could both name, have long histories of failed, high drama relationships and/or marriages, one after the next. Other guys like Roosh usually donât have any relationships that last longer than about three months.

Yes, these guys know how to get laid. Many PUA/players on forums and blogs have better pickup skills than even I do and lay more women than me. But when it comes to ongoing relationships with women, these guys are dreadful. The relationships they attempt are so cluster fucked that even clueless beta males with no game would often do a better job. I’m being 100% serious about that.

The Horrible Manosphere Marriage Advice

This brings me to one area in particular where I think many well meaning manosphere gurus are actually hurting men, and hurting them badly.

This is when manosphere guys present long-term traditional marriage as the endgame goal of men, particularly Alpha Males.

As you know, for years I have given very specific, detailed, massively field tested, step-by-step advice on how to have a long lasting relationship with a woman (including serious, pair bonded relationships) in a way conducive to modern day realities. Iâve discussed this stuff at length here at this blog (check out the archive) and in my books. Long-term pair bonding is wonderful and I recommend it to experienced Alphas over the age of 35 who desire it. But you have to do it correctly, otherwise the odds are overwhelming youâll end up getting divorce raped, losing your kids, losing your retirement, or best case scenario, you will experience mountains of drama that will make you very unhappy.

Are the pro-traditional marriage manosphere guys and PUAs giving very specific, detailed, field tested advice regarding how to get married and stay married in the modern era? No. Every time I see this âadvice,â it boils down to three steps:

1. Find a young, pure virgin (or close to it) who will make a great wife.

2. Get legally married and monogamous.

3. Stay Alpha.

Thatâs it. Thatâs always their advice.

The problem is that if that advice worked, youâd have older Alphas and ex-players all over the manosphere and PUA community in long, 15+ year monogamous marriages who are still with their wives, still not cheating (and not being cheated on), and still very happy. Do you see any gurus like that? Other than maybe Dalrock or Althol Kay, I don’t think I can name even one. Even if you can name one or two, you’ve proven my point. One or two out of hundreds? If the get-traditionally-married-and-be-Alpha advice actually worked, there should be tons of these guys all over the place.

That three step âadviceâ is just like the William Shatner advice. It looks good to society. It makes you feel good (temporarily). It appeals to the more right-wing conservative readership of your blog or forum. But it doesnât work.

If youâre an experienced Alpha/player and have fucked 50 or 100 women, and then stupidly marry that Unicorn Woman virgin (or near virgin) in a traditional, legal, monogamous marriage in the Western world, youâre going to end up divorced or at least in major drama in less than five years, certainly less than ten. If you don’t believe that, then take a deep breath, calm down, turn on your brain, and read this, this, this, and this to get the facts. Once again, youâre taking advice from guys who donât know what the fuck theyâre talking about and have not demonstrated any success regarding the advice theyâre giving.

I don’t care if your favorite PUA or manosphere guru just got monogamously married (or moved in with his monogamous girlfriend or whatever) and is telling everyone it’s great. Wait 25 years, and if he’s still married to her, still has never cheated on her, she’s never cheated on him, and they’re both still really happy, then he’ll be qualified to give advice regarding traditional monogamous marriage. Until then, he’s just shooting his mouth off and you’re an idiot for listening to him. The odds are overwhelming that woman will be out of his life in less than five years.

Just like Eddie Murphy, I have seen naive guys get very excited when they see a manosphere guru or PUA advocate traditional, legal, monogamous marriage. They think itâs a great thing and canât wait to hear more advice from the guy whoâs never done anything like what heâs recommending (or at best, has just done it, like PUAs/Alphas who are newly married and arenât even at the three year mark yet).

This is extraordinarily dangerous, and thousands, if not millions of men are following this âadvice,â or at least plan to.

The Only Rational Response

There is one, and only one rational objection to what I stated above. That is, if you tell me that you honestly donât care if you get divorced. I have discussed this concept before, what I call Serial Monogamy Marriage, where more and more Alpha Males (1.0 of course), throw their arms up in surrender and say something like this:

âWell, fuck it! Iâm getting married anyway! I want to get married, dammit! I want kids dammit! And yeah, marriage doesnât work anymore, and women suck now, and Iâll probably get divorced down the road and it will suck ass, but fuck it, I donât care! Iâm doing it anyway!â

The first problem is that heâs falling into the Societal Programming trap of assuming the only way to properly raise children is to get legally married and sexually monogamous, and Iâve debunked that a thousand times already. Proper parenting via long-term co-habiting pair-bonding does not require legal marriage nor absolute sexual monogamy.

The second problem is even bigger. Iâve noticed more and more Alphas/players over the last few years say this stuff and act on it. They get legally married, donât sign any type of prenup, get 100% monogamous, and when challenged, declare (or subtly imply) that they donât care if they get divorced later.

I follow a model of long-term consistent happiness. Even if my relationships donât last, thatâs okay because A) I wasnât planning on them to last forever, and more importantly, B) theyâre structured so that they donât screw up my life when they end (or in my case, take a temporary break, since 94% of women who leave me eventually come back).

The âI donât care if I get divorced laterâ model is one of short-term happiness and long-term pain. Youâre structuring your entire life around a system (monogamous legal marriage) that is only designed for people who are going to be together and monogamous forever, for 50+ years, when you know itâs going to fail way before then. Youâre using the exact wrong tool for the job.

If thatâs the model youâd like to follow, and if you really value your future happiness that little, then ignore me and do whatever youâd like. But if youâd rather be happy, evaluate The Only 9 Options for Men as They Age and pick the least bad one for you and your long-term consistent happiness.

Any time someone in the manosphere or PUA realm is offering advice on his blog or via a forum, ask yourself if this guy has actually had harmonious, low drama, long-lasting relationships in the past. If he hasnât, you need to close your ears whenever he gives his âadviceâ regarding relationships, marriage, picking the ideal girlfriend or wife, or any of that stuff. Feel free to listen to his pickup and get laid advice, but if he gives relationship advice, youâre seriously better off doing the exact opposite of what he recommends.

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Title Why You Shouldn’t Take Relationship Advice From Players
Author BlackDragon
Date August 22, 2016 12:00 PM UTC (7 years ago)
Blog Caleb Jones
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