A lot of us were sucked into the illusion of love and all of that happily ever after shit. We grew up with bogus romantic notions of true love conquering all and blah blah blah, and then maybe temporarily lived in the illusion while we had the hots for someone and maybe she even reciprocated. The problem with that, at some point, reality comes crashing in, destroying the illusion and destroying you emotionally in the process, and maybe also financially. If you still cling to that illusion, you reframe the old relationship as an anomoly and then go back and try again, only to get destroyed again. Seems like MGTOW happens when you finally decide to let the illusion go and live your life the way the world really is, not how we long wanted it to be as prescribed by all those sappy romcoms.

Letting the illusion go is hard! It's possible to feel withdrawal symtoms just like recovering from a drug like heroin or meth. The stinking love illusion feels so good that you always want it again once you've experienced it. MGTOW seems like are basically recovering addicts. We walk away from the unjust and rigged drug-like game. Hopefully, like other recoveries it gets better with time. I know sometimes I feel really POed and other times feel down, but I'm working to get through it because I believe freedom and a better life are on the other side.