If you show any emotion at all its a weakness, and if you don't show any it's also a weakness. It doesn't matter if you care or you don't care, you will still lose.

The only benefit of not showing any emotion in the short term is that it can get you laid, but if you keep showing no emotion for long enough then she will flip the script, and then it's a problem because now you don't care.

Here is the problem, women's expectations are fluid. Trying to keep a woman happy in the long run is like trying to catch water whilst you sit in a tank continuously filling up. You'll catch some and give yourself some extra time, but eventually you'll drown.

They constantly change, there is no set standard to them because that requires respect for something other than their own feelings at the time. Do not even think of getting married or even entering a long term relationship.

For those that want children, the best thing you can do if you really want them is to string along a number of plates for a while, assess which would be the best mother, get her pregnant, and keep it on good terms. Play the old 'it didn't work out' but you still want to be in the child's life etc.

Do not get married. Do not live with them. Breed if that's what you really want, and be done with that. Yes you will pay child support, but you will also still have more peace of mind on a day to day basis this way.

Do not think you need a long term relationship, or a marriage, or even a child to prove anything. You don't. If you want children, you don't need a relationship or a marriage to have them. Fuck the stigma associated with children out of wedlock and just do that.