Summary: An overweight stay-at-home mom grudgingly let her husband go on a once-in-a-lifetime ski trip with a family friend who happens to be a 22 year old model. The dread has convinced her to start getting back in shape and be a better wife to her husband.

Body: A relationships thread had so many upvotes it made my reddit front page so I decided to check it out. What I discovered was a story that proves how effective dread game can be, even if you do it unintentionally.

Part 1 of story

Part 2 of story

Basically, a 35 year old guy had a once-in-a-lifetime ski trip to Whistler, BC planned. He booked it well ahead of time and got a great rate on the hotel room, but at the last minute his buddy whom he was going with had to cancel. The guy has a family friend who is willing to go with him, but the catch is that she's a 22 year old Instagram model. Although he's known her since she was a baby and basically considers her a little sister, his wife is not happy about this development and the guy cancels the trip. Wife feels bad about it because her husband has paid for her to go on vacations without him, so she calls up the hotel and gets her husband's reservation back.

Now, here's the payoff at the end of the story:

As for me I've spent the last two weeks really dedicating my self to lose weight, get healthy and be passionate about something again. I've signed up for a 60 day challenge at our local hot yoga studio and have been going every day. I've started using myfitnesspal to count calories (I'm astonished at how much I was actually mindlessly eating for years). And in two weeks I've lost just under 5lbs which makes me feel really great.

As one reply put it: proof that dread game works. The wife felt she had competition, and she went into full mate-guarding mode.

As for the guy himself: either he's a beta who unintentionally dread gamed his wife with the help of somebody he basically considers his little sister, or he's a Machiavellian chessmaster who manipulated events so that he could spend two weeks banging a hot young model and scare his wife into losing weight. We'll probably never know.

Lesson Learned: If you're in an LTR, have other women in your life (friends, coworkers, associates) who are very attractive. The passive dread game will prevent make your woman more reluctant to let herself go.