im still in the beginning stages of all of this. i was brought here because of my failed relationship with a girl who i considered a best friend at one time. we didnt really like eachother at first but things got better to a degree. i became the friend that helped her with her problems and put her at ease at times. i helped her with her dating problems. i honestly was too shy and docile at times. but i was better with conversing with women that i had no attraction to. like my friend at the time. out of the blue she asks me out one day. and i say yes, because i had no game. and i became happier, but more simpish at the same time. i did what i did with my last girlfriend. which was put my friend on a pedestal. because i didnt know much about the dating world. and she was happy for a bit. and she just dumped me in a note one day. it was a month after my birthday and her friend just gives me the note. it was just this long note that wasnt direct and felt phony. and i was depressed for about 2 years because of it. but at the same time it made me realize that i deserve better and that i needed to work on myself. that i havent scratched the surface of my true potential. which had at first brought me to the seduction subreddit. and then through there i found this subreddit. and i felt like the stuff on here was horseshit. but as i read more and more, it was men like me. that felt defeated and forsaken by the society that had supposedly "nurtured" them. and wanted to unlock their true selves. i used to think that hanging with more women led to getting more women. but all i got was the teddy bear treatment. the inanimate penisless object in which they had no sexual attraction to that had to listen to their man problems and bullshit. but in the midst of my solitude and depression, i had enough. i just want to be happier and better. be the man my father wasn't. be the man that i wished i was in high school. fuck the females that wouldn't even look in my vicinity and LIVE.