I was thinking the other day and it came to me something I'd like to share here. First of all let me introduce myself, I'm a 20 yr guy who has always been the tipical nice guy, trying to make everyone happy to avoid conflict, raised by my mother with no father figure, brainwashed by movies and songs that you as a man have to find your 'princess' to be happy, and live 'happy ever after'. Always given special treatment to women (I apologise for my grammatic as I am not a native speaker) and have always been friends with them but nothing more. Have one girlfriend who, later I found out, laughed with her friends over my texts and dumped me and cheated on me. As I wanted to share, I have been reading all your posts for a month but although I agreed to almost all of it consciously it really didn't sink in as I wasn't able to escape the the 'pussy quest', by always choking when I was near a girl, or trying to compare myself to other guys in appearance and in behavior, even though I was consciously trying not to do it, it really made me feel miserable 24/7 at the point I thought I had depression. The thing is this, I was taking the bus one day in my way to university and I found myself thinking about a program I had watched that morning about wild animals, the tipical males fighting over a female. And as I was trying to compare it to us humans and I thought this. The males fight over the female right? So if the males don't fight over her she has no power. That's really obvious, but it really strike in me as I was always thought that the genders need each other equally, but the role of the male is protection, work, food supply, infrastructure, and the female role is to her offspring, nurture, etc. So I came to the conclusion, that the male doesn't really need the female and most of all of the biological markers, height, physical strength, etc, in the male are just for the female to her offspring, and the male gets what is vital to his survival from himself, you could say that's this it's just pointing out the obvious but it was a critical moment for myself to realize than men don't really need women, and women really need men. At that point i felt great about myself and I started to watch through the window and see attractive women and see that the more attractive they were the more clear became to me that all of that display was a tool for getting something from the men. At the same time when I saw a good looking guy I now longer had that bitterness or admiration, and I thought to myself, you have the perfect advertising for the biggest scam of your life. So several days ago I became a changed man, I have tons of energy, I feel great, I'm pretty happy with my life, I talk loud, I feel no insecurity or social pressure whatsoever and any difficulty is now i challenge to overcome, not a catastrophe. Wierd enough girls stated to treat me super nice and are very flirtatious with me, which has never even happened to me, but now I see it for what it is and have used It a strategy that, to be honest, has backfired a couple times; when I see that I girl is into me I just ask her wanna f*ck? To scare her away, and it has worked several times. Now I feel like I started living, I feel like my 'depression' was in fact the ridiculous expectation I have putted into myself of having a girl to be happy, and all of it started with you guys, with MGTOW. And if you are like myself and you agree with the things you see in the posts but not feel any different, give it time and meditate over the subjects, and the one that helped me the most; do it everyday, preach it to yourself religiously or you'll return to your old way of thinking. Have faith if you believe this is the way. Cheers!