So I have a young friend, let's call him S. S is 24, a bit of a geek loner who is also a member of my cycling club, which is how I know him. We share the same profession, although he's much much junior to me. Thus we have struck up a sort of friendship based around mentorship, me giving advice on career stuff etc.

He recently got a GF. She likes to portray herself as a gamer girl type, into geek culture...but her involvement is only skin deep, she pays lip service to it at best. I warned him to keep a close eye on her as certain things he mentioned threw up huge redflags for me, stuff like wanting him to pay her bills, expecting expensive dates, on her mobile a lot. The next week he comes and asks me about a website called "Female Dating Strategy", saying she mentioned it in passing when he questioned her about what she was doing on her mobile. I quickly explained it was a reddit sub and proceeded to show him all the worst excesses of FDS and exactly what they preach. He was a little silent afterwards and I didn't hear from him for 2 weeks.

Last night he rang me up asking if he could buy me a pint to say thank you..?

Thanks for what?

Well turns out he dumped his GF after talking to her about it. He didn't go into too much detail accept to ask her if she believed in the FDS stuff and said he wanted an equal relationship, that she needed to pay 50% of dates from now on. She refused...and got dumped.

Couldn't be prouder of him...if only I had been shown women's true nature that early in life, then maybe I wouldn't be another divorce statistic, I would never have gone there in the 1st place!