TL:DR at bottom

A few months ago I stumbled upon The Red Pill sub-reddit while checking out other men's oriented subs. While I was already in a proto-red pill stage, finding this place helped me accept as fact some of the observations I've been making over the past several years.

As it would happen at almost exactly the same time I started lurking TRP, a good friends relationship began to collapse:

My girlfriend has some very red pill views of her own. She hates feminism, accepts the differences between men and women, believes heavily in monogamy and while she is still a woman, is often able to step back and recognize when she's running on feeling rather than rationality. She's an awesome girl and I'm happy to have her in my life.

About two months ago, she told me about how her friend E's girlfriend; who we'll call "N"; had made a new guy friend at her job. He had started talking to her, and had come over to their house to drop something off. This guy stayed for about two hours and chatted with N. When E found out about it (he was at work at the time) he said that it wasn't to happen again, and his girlfriend said it wouldn't.

I should mention, about a year ago N's mother died and she didn't really deal with it at all, just buried down and didn't even talk about it with E much. Her dad also starting dating really fast, like within' three months of her moms death.

About a week after that my girlfriend gets a text saying that N is still talking to this guy, and hitting it off. My girlfriend has N come over here and insists that she stop what she's doing as she's treading down dangerous territory. N says that she's just "figuring things out" and "internalizing" everything and that she'll resolve it all eventually. N continues to text this guy for the next two months, revealing to my girlfriend that he says things like: I miss you! And: I love you.(albeit while drunk)

Eventually my girlfriend confronts N with a pre-written letter saying that if she doesn't tell E that she's still texting this guy and essentially emotionally cheating on him that she'll do it for her in exactly seven days. N tells my girlfriend that she had started talking to E about how she wasn't feeling as happy in the relationship anymore and that she didn't know where the two of them were headed. E, being madly in love with her and what would be called a beta provider by this point in the relationship buys her flowers and tries to make her feel like she did at the beginning. At this point I knew the timer on the bomb was set.

Tonight that bomb blew the fuck up.

N tells E everything... well not everything. First it's that she's not happy in the relationship. Then after E pushes; that she made out with him one time, but immediately regretted it. Then finally, after more and more pushing that she has fucked this guy at least two times.

These two had one of those relationships that all their friends used as a measuring stick against. Literally everybody considered them unbreakable. They were the glue that held the group together. Almost all house parties happened at their place, we had organized yearly traditions that revolved around them. I'm somewhat an outside observer, though I am friends with E. Who is right now sleeping in our guest bedroom and basically on suicide watch.

I don't really have much of a point to this, I guess I just figured I'd tell the story. If anybody has any thoughts I'd love to hear them, or if you want to know any more details save for anything that could identify the two parties. Once E has some time to process everything that's happening (he needs to find a new place to live, and start healing) I intend on slowly introducing him to the red pill views, and eventually this sub-reddit. It will definitely be a case of baby steps.

Needless to say, I know that this sort of thing can happen to me too, and that I am now firmly red pill for good. I may not be the HVM that I want to be right now, but every day I get a little closer, and there is absolutely no way I will ever allow myself to get hurt the way my friend's been hurt. I love my girlfriend, but I know one thing for sure: You can always trust a woman to be a woman.

TD;DR Friend's girlfriend of ten years cheated on him, lied to him and my girlfriend (her best friend) about it and their entire social circle is in upheaval