This is a somewhat humbling story about my best friend.

He's the kind of guy that has always had women interested in him. He isn't some ridiculously handsome guy, but is tall (6'1) and plays basketball three or four nights a week, sonin very good shape.

He's always had women openly flirt with him. He's cheated in almost every relationship he's been in, until he met his wife. They've been married four years, and she's a little over six months pregnant with their first child (his second).

A few months ago he started hanging out with a woman he played basketball with. He often played late, but I overheard them argue one evening, sounded like she thought he was cheating. I guess it blew over, because they became close friends with the woman, regularly went out and even did camping trips with, whatever.

Well, the wife just left town a few nights ago, and is gone for about a week. He invites the woman over, we all hang out all day (at one point, I erroneously started thinking we we're building a rapport), but as the night winded down, she asked about staying the night. In his room (or rather, "to sleep on the floor in their closet", like anyone's gonna buy that shit...)

It's a pretty sobering reminder that at the end of the day, women truly want an "alpha". It doesn't matter than my friend is, I'm gonna say acting like a total piece of shit, or that his woman friend is also acting like a total piece of shit (how are you going to pretend to be friends with a guy's wife, and then fuck him when she leaves town while pregnant with his child?).

I don't even get along with his wife, but I live with them, I have to fucking move because I wouldn't even be able to face her knowing my friend is fucking "their" friend in her own goddamn bed.

Regardless, let it be known that majority of women are competing for a handful of high-value men. Doesn't matter if you get along, if there are "better" options, they want only "the best". And if you're not the best, then you don't exist.

But if you're willing to do whatever it takes to become that best version of yourself? You can basically do whatever the fuck you want, with whoever you want to. Given his wife's prior suspicion of them, I have to assume she's choosing to bury her head in the sand because, again, he's a "high value" man.