| Offline | | MPUA Forum Enthusiast |  | Joined: Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:20 pm Posts: 36 | First, I highly doubt that Gammbit is nothing more than a man trying to make a point. In other words, I think he's lying, making up a scenario for the sake of his his argument.
I think the endgame for any pua should be to fall in love, have kids and begin studying books on how to be a good husband & a good father. I believe having tons of promiscuous sex is a neccessary part of a guy's life, but I also believe that after you've fully experience the pua lifestyle you've gotta find love & family.
Besides that I think stuff like taking up an art (photography, painting, playing guitar etc), having some competitive sport (like amateur mixed martial art or adult basketball league), studying philosophy and politics, and making the world a better place (charity, mentoring kids) are all necessary for a complete life.
Writers like Stephen Covey provide great insight into having healthy long term relationships. This is his theory on the nature of trust:
"We all know what a financial bank account is. We make deposits into it and build up a reserve from which we make withdrawals when we need to. An Emotional Bank Account is a metaphor that describes the amount of trust that's been built up in a relationship. It's the feeling of safeness you have with another human being.
If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
But if I have a habit of showing discourtesy, disrespect, cutting you off, overreacting, ignoring you, becoming arbitrary, betraying your trust, threatening you, or playing a little tin god in your life, eventually my Emotionally Bank Account is overdrawn. The trust level gets very low. Then what flexibility do I have?
None. I'm walking on mine fields. I have to be very careful of everything I say. I measure every word. It's tension city, memo haven. It's protecting my backside, politicking. And many organizations are filled with it. Many families are filled with it. Many marriages are filled with it.
If a large reserve of trust is not sustained by continuing deposits, a marriage will deteriorate. Instead of rich, spontaneous understanding and communication, the situation becomes one of accommodation, where two people simply attempt to live independent life-styles in a fairly respectful and tolerant way. The relationship may further deteriorate to one of hostility and defensiveness. The "fight or flight" response creates verbal battles, slammed doors, refusal to talk, emotional withdraw and self-pity. It may end up in cold war at home, sustained only by children, sex, social pressure, or image protection. Or it may end up in open warfare in the courts, where bitter ego decimating legal battles can be carried on for years as people endlessly confess the sins of a former spouse.
And this is in (what should be) the most intimate, the most potentially rich, joyful, satisfying and productive relationship between two people on this Earth—marriage. The P/PC lighthouse is there; we can either break ourselves against it or we can use it as a guiding light.
Our most constant relationship require our most constant deposits. With continuing expectations, old deposits evaporate. If you suddenly run into an old high school friend you haven't seen for years, you can pick up right where you left off because the earlier deposits are still there. But your accounts with the people you interact with on a regular basis require more constant investment. There are sometimes automatic withdrawals in your daily interactions or in their perception of you that you don't even know about."
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