Tl;DR: Watch the clip and discuss because I feel like this is a goldmine.

I started watching Mad Men and I came across this scene. I could tell right away that it was going to be very important. Then I realized what I believed is the biggest weapon in seduction - nostalgia. Then Don Draper introduces the name of the product...The carousel.

Nostalgia is what causes an alpha widow. Nostalgia is what causes oneitis. Nostalgia is what brings you back to your ex regardless of how she treated you. Nostalgia is what can keep a marriage together. Nostalgia is the best of times during the worst of times.

Stay with me here. This is why women ride the CC. They aren't doing it for the hell of it. They have an agenda. They are searching for that same experience again. It isn't hypergamy for the sake of hypergamy, they know what they want.

If we can do some homework on our women, we can create that fantasy that they long for (if it coincides with what we imagine for ourselves, otherwise...what's the point?). I challenge you to stalk through her FB. Have conversations about lovers past. Not in such a direct way, but listen to what she says and infer what happened. It may take a bit of introspection after the fact to piece it all together, but you know this girl. You know what she likes. Make it happen.

They say walking away is our only weapon. Gentlemen, it does not have to be. Write the dream. Live the dream. The relationship goes where you do, might as well make it exceptional.

Edit: It just dawned on me. There is a counter to the alpha widow. That is only one side of the coin. There is the other half of their sexual strategy - Beta Bux. We need to re-envision LTR's. Eventually the CC years come to an end. That strategy is old hat. She wants kids! This is going to be radical, but nothing with women is ever logical. You need to have a sick LTR for a few years. You need to leave her. You just set a precedent for her future LTR's - Nostalgia. Now not just any beta bux will do. She will come back to you because no one else will have given her an experience anywhere near what you two had. You were the best experience of this new phase of her life where it's about commitment. Not just any amount of Bux can be enough.