Well also the opportunity to have that girl as a friend lmao. It kinda hurts when someone only wants you romantically and completely stops hanging out if you won’t date them even though they could be a good friend

11

And this obviously doesn’t mean like “make friends with girls so you can hook up with her friends” but these dudes talk about how impossible the dating apps are and whatever and let that feed into their hatred of women because of a perceived lack of options, all the while they cut off any options they could have by just doing normal people things and existing as someone with friends

10

This is low key kinda true. But the dynamic has to be one of mutual respect. Frankly it’s a turn off to most girls to see a guy “simping” for a girl who doesn’t like him that way. She becomes the arbitrator for who he dates because she might know something about him the other girls don’t. I broke away from something like this when I found out a friend of my exes (who I used to hang out with) was cockblocking me to keep me as a backup. That was a cold day.

1