April 2013 - I was 23, single with the random 3 week-at-a-time fuck buddy, theres a girl my sister works with, and has decided I needed to be dating "because she would be a good girl for you." Girl in question is 29, definitely still hot as shit, with the clear signs of "I used to be hotter, but cocaine and parties have worn on me," but here I am, thinking I may have hit the jackpot. Cut to May, sisters wedding, chicka is there, I go through the whole day/night randomly flirting with her, poking fun and shit, eventually get her number (yay.) We start dating, 30 days, a few parties and 0 sex later, because she wanted to wait, and I ate it up, she dumps me because "I'm just not ready to be tied down."

I get all pussy hurt and mope for a month about how shit isn't fair, then randomly redditing for matrix shit, I find this sub. Months of me just reading shit kicked me in the face. I push for a promotion at work, and get it. I stand straighter, I use my gym membership, I take more classes, basically just decided to take the knowledge here and fucking apply it.

It's May 2014, I pick up some bartending bullshit to pad the wallet/pass some time when, lo and behold, this chick walks in. Barely looked at her for almost an hour, she comes up to the bar and says hi, we small talk for a bit, and she tells me to call her sometime, and I respond "You still have my number, I'm not coming after you again." Boom, I saw the fucking light, she's so taken back she just walked away with a bullshit little smile. a few days go by, and I get a text from her, I sporadically talk to her over the next few days after that. THEN she calls and says "Let me buy you lunch," so I was all about a free meal and some practice, after just being a giant dick the entire time, I tell her to come back to my place, which, holy magic batman, works like a charm.

Anyway, we bang a few times and she starts talking about how she's glad she ran into me, we work so well together, we should date and all that happy shit, and I got a sweet little zinger in there with "It takes more than sex to make a relationship work."

Haven't heard from her in 3 days, I'm ok with it, and god damn do I have a different outlook on the world.