Summery:

Do you have tips for getting over a oneitis? What worked? Did you relapse (outside of reconnecting?) Does it still hurt years later?

Life story of my oneitis and thoughts about TRP, and how it applies to me. Long read. Many apologies.


My ex of 5 years is still an infatuation of mine. She went from insatiable succubus/unicorn to basic bitch/AWALT when my SMV took a dive (after I put her through school for her good job, I left work to do the same...big mistake).

I did everything you could do. Saved her child from abduction even. Etc. Means literally nothing to her.

My SMV is very low (I'm moving back in with my mother to afford school, 31, very obese (360 lb. On a 6'4" frame), stupidly stopped hanging with male friends while with her, current job pays minimum wage (less than half of what the job I left paid, but they have no openings now).

I'll be brutally honest. I'm half thinking to spend the next 3+ years worshipping at the temple of the Iron God, and getting my education complete (I can get a 100k.year sallary when finished). I have a good frame, height, blue eyes, caucasian (the women around here seem to pursue that), tall. Decent SMV potential by my mid 30s.

Or, not. One bullet and I check out out of a bullshit rigged game.

I question how much a woman can love. It seems TRP is correct, women can only really love their children.* I was homeschooled by a single mom. Canadian/Mormon/feminist. I was raised to be Beta and to be a white knight. I see an alarming similarity with the neckbeard stereotype (I'm super geeky, love video games, overweight, etc.), and social skills come painfully slow.

PUA lead me here, and it always mentioned issues of congruency. TRP teaches frame and core values that as solve the problem, but body language, shit tests, detecting IOIs are all OK incredibly hard for me. Fuck, sometimes I wonder if I'm autistic. Becoming an alpha may not be in the cards for some, and I hated being used as Beta bux. Yet alpha is such a struggle. Part of the issue is I define my happiness to include a beautiful, horny woman first and foremost. My hobbies secondly. I wish I could say otherwise, but I'm not sure I can ever get a 7+/10, let alone keep her. (Well I am proud of a 8/10 I got recently, 18 and freaky, but she was legit diagnosed crazy).

I'm sorry for the rant. I am contemplating serious things right now.

*an anecdote that questions this hypothesis is, at one point she had a handful of pills and threatened suicide due to her sorrow at the prospect of losing me. She never lied to me, and it did not seem a conscious effort to manipulate me. So at some point I may have meant more than her child.