Not gonna bore you all with my life story, but I have a super addictive personality and f'd myself up a lot with everything from painkillers to cult like subreddits. The best way to think about addictive things for me is like taking out a loan on happiness. You have to pay it back with sadness. Im in metaphorical bankruptcy in this situation, but TRP sucks for multiple reasons.

  1. It prevents you from developing real relationships, which if youre messed up in the head like me, you kind of need.

  2. It doesnt really work. It could basically be summed up as "act confident and dont be desperate, focus on yourself" I have never been confident and always been desperate and lazy, but I could put on an act. Problem is as people get older they get more perceptive, and it didnt help that I degenerated. as I slipped further into addiction it stopped working all together (2 yrs no luck :/ ).

  3. Its very cult-like. Ill just leave that at that

  4. Its basically designed for sociopaths. Being an asshole doesnt feel good, and it gets worse as time goes on. Truth is I dont want a girl whose super into alpha traits, and just cause Im tall and used to be good at sports doesnt mean Im not insecure af nd frequently sad. Its unhealthy for guys who feel emotions to put on an act to pick up a girl and then see how they arent attracted to the "real you" in any way whatsoever. 1-way ticket to even more self-loathing

Thats just off the top of my head. Maybe it works for some people, but for people like me its extremely self-destructive, fitting right in with everything else I was doing at the time.

Now I gotta learn how to live like a normal person and have the maturity of a teenager. Not like TRP was the worst thing I did, but itd be nice to have some sorts clue about actual relationships if i can ever get my life together. Oh yeah and I ruined things with by far the best girl Ill ever have a chance with due to the extreme paranoia that place encouraged.