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Originally Posted by 6bet me
The sad thing is that I work 5 nights per week, so I should be able to cover my entire cost of living and add $100 to my bankroll every week, just from the money I earn at work, but recently, I've been giving a lot of money to my girlfriend and taking her out to a lot of expensive restaurants, so I've been spending far more than my work income and I have to deduct money from my bankroll for life expenses.
If you don’t see this as your main problem, OP, you are in for a lot of pain in your life. Read it over and over and see if you think there is anything you could slightly tweak with this picture and your life? You have a thick skull but, really, do your best to look at this paragraph as rationally as possible. Are you able to imagine a world in which you don’t pay for a girl’s living expenses?
You don’t have a lot of money. You have “a few thousand.” You know how fast a few thousand can come and go at 3/5+? I don’t actually think you know. I think this is your first real go at poker. You’re not listening to people who have been playing a decade or more and have made the same type of mistakes you are making now. Also, is this your first serious gf? How long have you been with her? How have you given so much power away?
You are 24. This is the time to be selfish and build your skills and cash flow. Stop spending money on a woman. Women will always be here for the rest of your life. New girls turn 18 everyday. You will have plenty of opportunities to buy things for women when you are older with a bit more money. Can you hold this desire to spend money on a woman back even a little? If not, I understand. We’re all conditioned by the media to buy stuff for women, to become a girl’s tool.
Think, even the people who don’t agree with me: why is Valentine’s Day mostly about men buying women gifts, chocolates, jewelry, flowers? Why isn’t it about women buying men powertools or laptops or whatever? Why is Mother’s Day way more popular and marketed than Father’s Day?
The feminine consumes. Our whole western culture is designed to feminize men, to make them weak and easily manipulated by images designed to separate man and his time and money and focus. The media gets men to spend like women do to please women. It gets men dependent on external technologies and services to go about their daily lives. A man becomes a cog in the corporate machine without direction or will of his own. The system turns the majority of men into consuming/slaving/spending sheep.
Men become spectators watching sports, watching the stock market, watching poker games, watching crypto prices go up and down, reading about companies taking each other over, watching politics, reading the news.
Can you see beyond the things you’re fed through the eyes everyday? All the logos and signs and words and colors meant to imprint certain perceptions and thoughts in your mind that benefit people trying to sell something to you?
Some people might be good at poker but they are still completely in the matrix created by modern westernized capitalistic media re: technology, corporations, women, sex, roles of men in relationships, roles of men in life in general. The conditioning is mad deep.
Last edited by spirit123; 05-14-2018 at 05:52 PM.