Summary : Over-exposure is your enemy. Spend only as much time as you need to to get what you want; not a second more.

Body This post is mostly for the TRP novice in both the LTR and just casually hooking up (Although i would advise that for someone completely new to TRP, a year of implementing the strategies and mindsets before considering an LTR is crucial)

There exists the pitfall of spending an excessive amount of time with a woman. This usually happens in the initial stages of love, where all your chemical responses are telling you that you need to be around the object of your affection at all times. Resist this urge, as giving into it has insidious effects on the most important of things--your frame.

Everyone here knows what shit-tests are, and though they are most encountered in the nascent stages of building attraction, implemented by women as a subconscious tool of elimination, the reality is that shit-tests never go away. Instead, like energy, they only ever shift in their form and state.

This is particularly true for LTRs. The entire relationship can be viewed as one giant shit test, aimed at reducing you from the alpha you were to something more akin to a pliable, domesticated beta. Whilst the shit tests are certainly not as overt as they were when you were initially trying building attraction, this actually makes them more dangerous; your radar may be attuned enough to know how to respond when she says you're too short for her, but coming up with a quick response to a situation that questions more than just superficial characteristics is something that only comes with time. Even after you've internalised TRP principles, there are times when you may be caught completely off-guard and respond poorly. (When this happens, refer to u/TwinPheasant 's principle, "ALAMO" and work it to suit your situation.)

One of the key means of keeping your frame is to minimise the amount of time you spend with your SO. We all know that, in the initial phases, making yourself too available is a sign that you have lower value and thus place being/seeing her top of your priorities. This, of course, tanks attraction. There is a tendency in men to let their guard down and shift their behaviour once they pass the first phases of a relationship. This is wrong.

You must understand that even though as a TRP man you have strong frame, it is still only a wall, and therefore capable of being wittled down. The primary means through which women achieve this goal is attrition--a slow victory gained in inches by the SO every time you spend time with her in excess.

By reducing the amount of time spent to only what is completely necessary to build and maintain your male-dominated relationship, you set a precedent where you never allow her to creep up that ladder of importance to the point where the relationship supercedes your goals. What this means is that, if you need three hours to see her, go out, have sex, talk for a while and get those yellow-coloured good feels, then you engage in those three hours and only those three hours.

It is within the nature of a woman to want to take over as much of a man's time as possible, both as a means of validation and bringing him down in status. Understand that, in her mind, every minute you spend with her is a minute you're not spending with another woman. This allows her to feel secure and comfortable in the knowledge that she has you. Even in monogamous relationships--one might argue that especially in monogamous relationships--it is essential that a woman always feel that there might be other women on the horizon whom you could easily sweep up. Keep her on her toes...and her hands and knees.

So, if you are at the point where you are spending what can only be considered as idle time with her, ask yourself if there is something that you could be doing in that moment that increases not only your SMV but your value in general. The answer is always yes; and when you answer yourself, you should then take your leave and go do it. Even if you're not leaving to do something awesome, the sheer fact that you are not with her allows her hamster to spin you into a position of superiority. Use this.

Lesson Found Your time and value are intrinsically linked. The more of the former you give her, the less of the latter you have.