Comments by "Tête Dur" (@tetedur377) on "Why Men STOP Dating Modern Women #13" video.
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One of the biggest puzzles to me is the advice my (step) mother gave me for dealing with women runs contrary to EVERYTHING I've learned about women over the course of my lifetime.
It's like she was setting me up for failure with women.
"Make friends with women," she said "that way, you'll always have a female friend."
"Treat women like ladies. Open doors for them. Give up your seat on public conveyances. Allow them to go first." And so on and on.
It's pretty much why I quit trying to date in my 20s; not long after I got out of the military, actually. I spent most of my time IN the military deployed overseas, so not a lot of action going on there, either.
If it hadn't been for the early days of the Internet, and chat rooms like AOL and Prodigy had, I would not have met my wife.
Don't get me wrong; it was a good marriage. It was my first, her third. Using the advice my stepmother gave me, it was a good marriage. But I was in my 40s - and yeah, I hadn't had a girlfriend in right at 20 years - and she was in her 50s.
She's gone now, and I don't regret having been married, but there's no way in hell I'd ever do it again, knowing what I know now.
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