My mother was an evil and abusive monster of a person. But despite all of the horrible things she did to me and the drugs she put me on I didn't come out of it unrewarded. Through it all I gained some valuble skills, or rather I had to learn to as a matter of survival.

Imaging having a woman from r/fds as your mother except on steriods

-I picked up many of the manipulation tactics women use. Shaming, sympathy garnering, the ability to appear weak and hopeless (believe it or not this can work for a man in many circumstances but will backfire horrifically in others)

-I learned how to play to a persons expectations and guage the lies that they would be all to happy to believe and would therefore not question the context or content more deeply without feeling that it was "too good to be true.

-and by extention I learned how to pigeonhole just about anyone to reach a certain conclusion in a very organic way.

  • I learned how to lie without batting an eye and how to eliminate or destract others from my tells.

-Lastly I learned that the game was rigged from the start.

My mother turned me into a real peice of work. when I was old enough I was able to let my father have full custody, that was the best decision I ever made.

He was able to instill some morals in me yes, but the relationship with my mother turned him into a broken shell of a man racked with parinoia waiting and perhaps hoping for death.

I decided I would never give a woman (or anyone for that matter) the power over my life to do something like that to me.

This was something I decided long before I swallowed the red pill and became mgtow (or rather before I was forced to stop believing the lie I told myself in a hope that I might find a companion in this life)

I don't hate women but I have what can only be described as an emotional tiredness when it comes to them.

MGTOW and trp slapped me in the face with a truth that I knew but didn't want to believe but had chosen to believe anyhow.

For me MGTOW is a movement of men trying to carvre out a different path for ourselves after coming to the realization of how things are. I strive to be my best self for my own contentment rather than seeking to invoke lust in the opposite sex.

GYOW brothers , I hope that we might all find some manner of fulfillment in this life and strive to be our best selves.