My cousin and his current wife dated for almost a decade before getting married in their late 20s. My cousin had 3 girlfriends before he met his current wife, who, according to him, helped him get over depression and anxiety over his previous breakups. His wife's SMV is MUCH lower than his. She isn't well educated, and is a 6/10 at best. My cousin has a top MBA in my third world country, and makes the equivalent of 200,000 USD and is easily an 8.5/10, has a body fat percentage of under 15%, has interesting hobbies, but due to some family issues, seems emotionally unavailable to his family and wife.

Recently, I read Rules of the Game by Neil Strauss, and was generally applying peacocking (I'm a decent singer, so I hum some tunes which acting aloof). Much to my amusement, despite being overweight, I was attracting mad attention from the ladies, including married ones.

So this one weekend, I end up at my cousin's place. He's at work, and his wife is telling me her sob stories about fights with her mother in law. I talk to her, empathize a bit. I do a bit of work, and I'm humming my favourite tunes.

She comes close to me, puts her hand on my thigh, 2 inches from my penis, and asks me, 'what do you think of me? do you think od me'. I'm kinda shell shocked, because this woman was almost a motherly figure to me from the ages of 14-17 (my family was in another country, so my SIL looked after me during those ages). But evolution doesn't know that shit, and I'm erect. I look down and try to avoid her advances.

Then I'm going out to meet my friends. She says, 'your cousin is going to be back at 11 PM. Stay back at home, let's have some fun.' I avoid her and go out anyway. I'm back and pretend like nothing happened. The next day she's like, 'let's go on a romantic drive, just you and I'. This is a mother of 2 daughters.

I went through a bad phase too, my pre redpill ex gf of 5 years dumped me, rode the alpha cock carousel and is now married to a beta MBA in the USA. I went into a 5 year long depression, and still suffer from some anxiety and ADHDesque symptoms. Women can be brutal. Men rape and kill. Women manipulate and abuse psychologically. My ex made it a point to tell me about all her escapades in graphic detail. I made a mistake - I should have cut off all contact. My rebounds sucked - one girl first had sex with me only to later say that if I wanted to continue having sex, I'd have to commit to her. The second wouldn't go beyond second base with me.

I was emotionally broken too, and somehow her advances made me feel good. So I put my head on her lap. She stroked my face, then my back from above my shirt, and then slipped her hand under my shirt. At this point I really didn't know what to do, because I was feeling good about getting female intimacy. It didn't go beyond that, but this, I guess, qualifies as emotional cheating.

Keep in mind, that her husband makes 10 times the money I do, is fitter, taller, better looking than I am.

She still calls me thrice a week and tells me that I can treat her like my girlfriend. I usually don't take her calls because I'm scared that I might get emotionally involved with her, but once in a while I do talk to her. She says things to me which make me feel like a man, but I can totally see through the game that she's playing.

I see a few explanations for her behavior: 1) Husband emotionally unavailable, I lend her an ear. 2) Husband doesn't make her feel desirable anymore. I gave her a few compliments on how pretty she was looking one day, casually. And she said to her husband - look, you never say this to me. 3) She is a mother of 2 kids, and she sees some benefit in getting herself emotionally or physically involved with me because I can probably help her kids move out of this third world country.

I also sense that she found a nice high SMV guy who was down and out, and got him to marry her. Also, her older sister was caught cheating on her husband with the aforementioned cousin's older brother. I think something is wrong with their family.

Phew, needed to get this off my chest.