Hello all, I'm new here.

I already have a girlfriend, so it might seem kind of odd that I'm signing up here. Well, I am an ex-nice guy. I did a lot of research on my own, because I didn't know the existence of forums like this, would have helped me a lot. I went though the pain of changing myself, both mentally and physically, and learning through mistakes. After taking many beatings, now I do alright, although I'm nothing like what a real PUA can do. Although I don't feel I need to become one, I wouldn't mind improving my skills. So you can say since I've invested a lot of effort into this aspect of my life, I have an interest in it even when I'm not actively looking. Of course as long as I'm in a relationship, I will only read/discuss/learn about these theories, I won't practice them; I'm not a cheater.

Also I come from loveshack (LS). Yes, that place. My views on pre-exclusivity dating seems to be too extreme for LS. I've had some very interesting and excellent discussions with some of the women there, even though we held opposite view points. So if you try hard enough, you could glean some very interesting and useful perspectives. However, there is also a very loud man-hating section of women there. I've mistakenly attempted to interact with them, since my perception of LS was set unrealistically high by my interactions with the non-crazy ones. There is nothing to discuss. They ignore your points/counter-points and jump straight to internet shit-flinging. I've had enough of that, so I started looking around else where, and that's how I came across this place. To be fair, there are women on LS that CAN agree to disagree and have great discussions about the finer points of dating. But the crazy ones make it not worth sticking around for.