Hello, I'm a lurker on this sub, and have reading with great interest at the various viewpoints and intelligent perspectives espoused here. I'm of course very interested intellectually in the MGTOW movement, and fundamentally agree with the principles in it - it IS the lifestyle I want to adopt, but I'm deeply unsure that I could sustain it without going crazy.

Now I don't even consider myself particularly young, being 31, but looking truly honestly at myself, I do not think I could completely forgo that experience of pair bonding, of establishing and building intimacy - I would like to tell myself I could do it, but even after a few months of being single I can't help but feel something's missing in my life. Depression plagues me. Meaningless haunts me. Casual sex doesn't fill the void. I can't help but have this unrelenting urge to get into a deep relationship. I suspect I'm a hapless victim to my genetic drive, and a lot - I would expect the vast majority - are like me. I could without doubt though see someone a bit more advanced in their life, perhaps in their 40s having come out of a previous marriage and done the whole family thing, as embracing and even being enriched by the philosophy. My genuine question is how do you younger MGTOWs do it? Do you experience periods of darkness and depression, or loneliness, and how do you overcome it?