Don't know what the average age is here, but I think I was MGTOW before it was a "thing". I'm 44, never been married. Dated a normal amount in my 20s, but around 28 or so I decided I didn't want kids, for a number of reasons. So I foolishly tried to find women that both didn't have kids or didn't want kids – and I was NEVER deceitful about that. Of course that failed, but I decided that I'd rather be alone than have kids I don't want, and I didn’t change my mind. At a certain point, I realized "Why am I bothering?" I was content alone, I'm an introvert anyway, and once you get to a certain age, even the allure of sex loses a lot of its luster. So I decided I wasn't going to put any effort into trying to meet women and change my situation because I was happy; and why ruin a good thing to pursue something that may blow up in my face anyway? Years later, that attitude has evolved to "I REALLY don't want to be bothered with the whole game." I'm not a misogynist, I'm just a realist. I know what women are about, and I don't want to deal with it. Hell, it's as much a favor to them as it is to me. I'm happy with my choices. I make good money, nobody tells me what to do, I take a lot of vacations, and I'll be on track to retire fairly early. I have a good job, but I don't have to kill myself bucking for a promotion just because I need to make more money to pay for an even bigger house, and daycare, and college, and blah, blah, blah. That reduces the level of stress in my life, and I couldn't be more content.

I'm not going to say that I wish more of the younger guys would adopt this lifestyle; but I totally support those that do. Rather, I wish more young guys would learn to be happy with themselves ALONE and ONLY THEN pursue relationships with women, secure in the knowledge that they can be just fine on their own and don't need a woman to make them happy. I think then men would be less tolerant of women’s hyper-emotional nonsense and this would lead to better marriages, less jacked-up dysfunctional families, less divorce, and a more stable society. Of course this all flies in the face of the modern “progressive” narrative that all men are evil, overly rational monsters that need to be civilized by women and get in touch with their emotions.