As usual, Brad comes home after heavy lifting. Today, he bench pressed 105 lbs. He is proud of it because he made progress of 5 lbs since last session. He rushes to have his post workout shake in the kitchen but finds out he is low on powder for the next shake, so keeps a reminder for the next time he goes out.
He rests for a while listening to some music. Out of nowhere, one of his plates Rachael comes to his house covered in blood on her hands. She has wrote “BRAD” in her right hand in bold letters.

Brad had previously denied any further relationship advances from Rachael, which of course, Rachael wasn’t happy about. But it build up to the point, she couldn’t think of not having Brad in her life.

Brad, completely frozen for a moment, realizes that shit has hit the fan. He can’t think how such a situation has arrived. But, at the moment, his protector instinct kicks in. He grabs first aid and stops the bleeding from Rachael’s hand.
Rachael again tries to display her ever lasting desire for Brad and tries to convince him that he could do anything he want in the relationship and it would be okay to her as long she was his OLTR. Of course, Brad never wanted to promote her, due to her obvious red flags.

Brad had adopted TRP principles since he was 15 and now all he wanted to focus on himself and enjoy his youth age. Brad had recently been lifting, spinning plates but hadn’t been in an LTR with somebody. He always was willing to walk away, and most of the times he walked away as he got bored. Brad was living his life to the fullest but was yet to be the best version of himself. He had a decent paying job to pay for his education and also gym. Brad meditated 30 mins a day, everyday. Brad was known to his friends as a guy who had his “shit” together.

But Brad had never saw the craziest side of a woman, he had heard about women going crazy on their partners but never had experienced such things himself. He was always calm and composed and this time too, he was calm enough to stop someone from bleeding. He listened to Rachael’s words carefully while his hind brain is constantly telling him to hard next, he does the opposite of what he has adhered to for half of his lifetime. Doing the crazy thing, he accepts Rachael as his OLTR, thereby promoting her following such an undeserved act from Rachael’s side. He rationalizes as he is giving her a chance. Then asks her to buy protein powder for him, Rachael agrees and sees his statement as a form of acceptance to his life as his promoted partner.

For 3 months, Brad regularly spins plates and Rachael has no problem with it.
Rachael is having honeymoon phase for Brad. Brad, on the other hand is just the same old Brad, but now he can bench press double than what he did back then.
Brad had also been earning more, thus making him more high value man. Rachael is always happy throughout this period and is loyal to him.

Its been 3.5 months now, he is bored of having plates but surprisingly hasn’t been bored with Rachael. He drops the plates and ensures full exclusivity to Rachael. Of course, Rachael is head over heels for him. She does everything for him as he wants to happen. Brad is now in his late 20s and so is Rachael. Brad has yet to reach his peak but Rachael on the other hand is very close to hitting the wall and has already started showing some signs.

Its been 7 months, Brad has now really started to notice Rachael hitting her wall. But he is yet to be bored of her. Thus, honeymoon phase still continues for some weeks until Brad realizes he has been completely oblivious to his core values, which had made him come so far in the wrong direction.
He is still in his youth age, he realizes this. He was shocked that he was going in the path of settlement with a girl who was depreciating in her looks. Although, he had dropped his plates, he didn’t change his behavior towards Rachael. Rachael was so happy to have him as a secure option, thinking she got a very good provider guy.

Brad wakes up one morning, looks at his email, he has got his very deserved promotion from his boss. He immediately realizes his goals of travelling the world with the money he has been saving so carefully. Rachael hearing this becomes happy now but as time grew, she also grew bitter about it. She started to get insecure about how she could easily be replaced by her partner, Brad.
Brad was starting to enjoy everyday more and more, but Rachael couldn’t help herself out of insecurity. She then does something completely insane by saying Brad how she didn’t like feeling an easily replaceable option and would want Brad to settle quick with her and also requesting him to not ask for any further promotion.

Brad now has completely realized how much it is important to have a high value woman who pushes him to get to the next level and still being secure.
Brad recalls his knowledge of not DEER ing with any women so he says to her that he can’t continue with her because he has other things to prioritize in his life more than the current relationship.

The moment Brad ended things between him and Rachael. Rachael broke into tears and cried for a day and half. She cried more because she knew that she can’t get anyone else who is that handsome as Brad for her age.

Few months had passed Brad swiping on Tinder for fun, sees Rachael, and her bio read.
“If you are not rich, don’t initiate the convo.”
Brad realized how much crazy of a person she was. He felt glad he made the decision and swiped left this time.
Brad now is spinning plates as he used to some months ago after a brief period of spending some alone time.
Some days passed, and he got along with a girl who was a mutual friend of Rachael and got to know what she thought of him via this new girl. This were her exact quotes told the new girl,
“Brad was not my type, he hit me once, and I bled. He was opposite of what every girl would want. He was a bad boy. He was also bad at sex. He called me whore so many times.”

After listening to this, Brad said, “If I am a sensible person and I want something then I would try the thing myself first before seeing a review and being biased.”
Obviously, Brad didn’t care about the new girl’s reaction but he still deflected it and didn’t react. The new girl found Brad to be so unmovable and strong. Her admiration towards Brad only increased after this.

Brad is still dating her and other 2 women to this day.

That Brad is my school music teacher, a gym owner, a polyglot, an aspiring entrepreneur.
I wanted to share this story as it really taught me so many things. I thank Brad who told me all of this. We then said, “Cheers!” and took a sip of a scotch.