This kid just bummed a smoke from me in the rain, saying he just came from his friend's, whose girlfriend just dumped him so he was "hurtin". Made me think for a second how that's pretty much what it is to be beta... hooked on the feelings from girls so much that you'll stoop to pleading etc. to keep it coming. I'm sure its been noted before, this dynamic, but still I guess it bears mentioning. An abundance mentality, keeping other sources of positivity, these things keep us from needing women to the point of patheticness.