Alright, after being a lurker for nearly a year on reddit I gotta make this throwaway to post here because holy shit guys, NAWALT. And I'll give my beautiful wife as an example.

We dated for two years, and honestly I would have proposed after the first year but my convictions have always been to wait two. Been married for seven years, and my wife has not changed a bit since the day we met. 10/10 Becky, I'm like an 8/10 Chad. She is nothing like anything you all describe women to be. And neither are all of my friends wives, some of my friends girlfriends perhaps, but that's why they aren't wives.

My wife cooks breakfast every morning at 5am, she's up by 4 to clean the house from the previous nights shenanigans (two little boys can destroy your house in no time). We both work four tens for the city so we have to be at our job sights by 6:30am. I work in high power line tree trimming, she works in stormwater maintenance. Her and I are both out in the harsh elements (pouring rain, freezing snow, blistering heat), her jackhammering away at asphalt to get to a waterline and me up in trees, while you guys here complain from your comfortable work desks. My wife and I play videogames together, sometimes co-op, sometimes PvP, sometimes she's on the VR and I'm on my PC and we don't talk to each other for hours but just like being in each others company.

Even when we were dating she paid her half of the dinner bills, and even took me on a few dates that she planned out and paid for herself (go carting, lazer tag, fancy ass dinners, movie premieres, I think she even paid for like 80% of our Hawaii vacation). She goes bow hunting with me, fishing with me and on her own (she likes rivers I like lakes), and we're both into back country riding. She doesn't paint her nails (bites them in fact, like me), owns four pairs of shoes (two pairs work boots, steel and plain toe, gym shoes, and heels for fancy shit events), and dresses modestly but its her own brand of sexy. We go snowboarding and work out together, we go to the range together, hell she bought me a xm-15 standard for my birthday last year.

Loyalty? She's the most loyal woman I've ever met, only been with one guy other than me when she was in high school, broke up because they went separate ways college wise (well he went to college and she got a plumbing apprenticeship). I feel like the whore in the relationship honestly, I've been with about 7 women before I met her. When I was fighting (used to do MMA semiprofessionally, as in I got invited to do casino fights n shit, nothing extra fancy) she would drive three hours after work just to come support me for a fight.

Income? We both earn around $100,000 a year (I make about an extra $40,000 in OT, she makes an extra $25,000 in OT). She's never asked or wanted to be a stay at home wife or mother, she pays her way herself, she spends her money on our boys and I spend my money on our toys he he. We've also got a joint savings for retirement that she puts a LOT into, I contribute occasionally.

We don't argue often, never been in a screaming match or anything like that. We thought for a minute that I might lose my ability to work after I got pinched between two trees. Didn't work for about a year while in recovery, she took such good care of me, I was starting to get fat because of it lol.

Sex? I'm not the kind of guy to get into that with folks, that's between my wife and I, but I got absolute no complaints I will say that he he.

All my buddies say they are in happy marriages as well, longest being one of my coworkers who's been married with 6 kids for like 20 years now (fuck that I'm happy with our two boys, maybe one more but fuck 6 of these things). That's actually what made me post here, talking with my buddies while playing Rust about this MGTOW thing and we were all just like, wtf is wrong with these guys?

I can't imagine my life without my wife, she's everything to me and makes my life so much better. I want no one else to hold at night, no one else to call when I took a massively huge shit and am super proud of it and send a picture, no one else to hold hands with in line at the grocery store, no one else to remind me that I put my wallet on the dining room table in the morning before I leave for work. My wife is my best friend, my soul mate, my life teammate. She's a beautiful wife and an amazing mother.

So gentleman, go your own way, I get that part. Focus on yourself and make yourself a better man. But stop saying shit like AWALT, because you're so fuckin wrong its straight up /sadcringe.