I have sometimes felt like I missed out on a lot of the fun of going to college because I never had a girlfriend. I was still a blue pilled simp and I would get sad about my own situation, and, of course, part of the reason that I was sad was because I didn't seem to be able to have the experiences in dating that other people seemed to be able to have, often seemingly quite easily. Even if I discovered MGTOW earlier, it still would have been hard to give up on my romantic dreams. I was just a good guy who wanted to live an honest everyday romantic dream -- and then I found out that the women that I wanted to date didn't seem to really care about me on the inside.

I never got to the romantic level; they were just friends. Sometimes it wasn't clear if they were interested romantically or not. I can still remember the fun of hoping that it was going to turn into something more, but that also makes it more sad thinking back on it. Because nothing ever worked out over the long-term. Can you think of too many things worse than having to give up on one's most important dreams? At some point, a regular guy has to say to himself: "It really doesn't seem like dating should be this difficult."

MGTOW did help me find peace and acceptance that I couldn't simply expect my romantic dreams to happen, and also that those dreams very likely weren't even realistic -- which is of course then silly to organize one's life around and to require in order to be happy. I don't need to keep having the sad hopefulness that dreams from my past will ever go from disappointment to happiness. Instead, I've very much accepted how the world appears to actually work, and I make the best of what I can have, which turns out to usually be a pretty good life.

When guys think they missed out on romantic relationships, they tend to imagine some perfect dream that they missed out on, where everything was going to turn out just like it should. They like to turn dating into fairy-tale type romance -- where it tends to actually be about biological, shallow, superficial attraction. If you think about someone you would really like to date and use your imagination to substitute an ugly person for their physical appearance, do you still want to date them anywhere nearly as much?

I never even got married and divorced like some guys on this group. I only experienced a fraction of how bad dating can be. I save so much money because I'm not trying to impress anyone, while I also get to spend my money how I choose. If I would be giving up all the freedom that I currently have, it would have to be for a ridiculously perfect woman, yet anyone like that wouldn't be interested in me anyway!

Sometimes you might have not gotten to experience something, but you got something else instead. Or you also avoided some bad stuff by not getting to experience something.