I'm in my fifties.

In my life, I've had ten serious relationships with women. This doesn't include one-nighters, flings, and so on., Let's assume I'm an average man -- I'm no Chad, but I'm not bad-looking --educated, etc. I've got three children, and one of those relationships was a thirteen-year marriage that ended in divorce. Until the last year with the last one, I'd never heard of MGTOW.

Of those ten relationships, seven were with women who, in the end, saw the whole thing as a transaction. At some point, and in keeping with everything that's been posted on this subreddit, they calculated their self-interest (often wrongly), and with absolutely zero show of regret, and no effort at all to talk things out, work on the relationship, anything, they ended it. Several of these relationships had lasted for years, one for seven years. Didn't matter at all in the end. Once you get past the infatuation phase, they have absolutely no loyalty, no interest in listening, changing, anything like that. Once women determine that you're of no utility to them, you become a nonperson. The whole idea of treating someone decently just because it's the right thing to do is completely alien to them.

Of the other three -- the ones I eventually ended up departing from:

One has turned into a genuine landwhale -- has to weigh at least 200 lbs and she's 5'2".

One is genuinely mentally ill -- think hospitalization

And one (my high school girlfriend) I have no idea about. Lost track, don't know. She may not even still be alive for all I know.

Bottom line: They did, do and always will eventually do an absolutely dispassionate calculation of self-interest, and act accordingly, no matter what they say. Women are totally capable, all of them, of believing one thing and behaving in ways that totally contradict it, without seeing any problem or even realizing it. Their brans don't work that way. The most recent one is heavily involved in nonprofits, prides herself on helping make the world better, and has been lying her ass off for months, cheating and so on.

Conduct yourself accordingly.