Tl;dr: I’m a high value guy dating a gorgeous girl who has hooked up with several VERY high value guys, but seems genuine in her desire to commit. Am I necessarily dating an alpha widow just because she rode the CC?

Long time lurker, first time poster. This is a bit long and my writing style isn’t the most narrative, so big ups and a bigger "thank you" to anyone who takes time to read this. I think it could end up being a good AWALT lesson for anyone who reads it, but I kind of hope not:

Am I dating an alpha widow? I’m a 23 year old guy at a selective university in the northeast. Kate is a 20 year old girl who attends the same school. I met Kate last year when we matched on Tinder and had sex the first time we hung out. Didn’t see her as a serious prospect, but time makes cock noses of us all and we started growing attached to each other.

I was wary of her at first, because she had been riding the CC for long enough to rack up a prodigious number of partners at our relatively small school during her 1st and 2nd years. Kate was beginning to experience some of the consequences (sneers from women, casual disrespect from men).

This is where it gets tricky for me. Standard RP knowledge seems to suggest that I should absolutely avoid Kate, since her days on the CC make her poor LTR material. But when I read through blog posts and gilded TRP posts about alpha widows, there are huge inconsistencies between Kate and the archetypal alpha widow, and between me and the archetypal beta savior. Kate is very attractive. She’s tall, with a VS model body. Her facial features are somewhat polarizing, but she’s 90th percentile by any standard with an amazing personality. That being said, she’s still been sleeping with dudes who are easily 90th and 95th percentile. This school is full of them. Massively tall, athletic, rich, upwardly mobile in a frightening way. She claims that they were fun, of course, but that they were painfully basic and that she would never want to date any of them.

Then there’s me. I won’t act like I can rate myself objectively, but I’m certainly not a typical 40th percentile beta scrub. I’m 6’3”, cut, and attractive enough in the face but certainly no model. I’m a huge nerd, but I carry it well and I’m not socially awkward. The athletic geek thing is kind of my schtick and Kate seems to like it. Whatever. I’m probably no lower than 80th percentile. Ever since we started hooking up, we have had a wild sex life, with many firsts for both of us. Truly ridiculous stuff. She’s never held back, and initiates regularly. This makes me think that I may ACTUALLY be good enough for her (superficially speaking), despite not necessarily being the best of the best she’s ever had.

Does AWALT apply here? Is Kate destined to be an alpha widow just because she rode the CC with 95th percentile dudes her freshman year? If I’m “alpha” enough (frame control, solid LTR game, etc.), could we have a relatively stable LTR without any shitty AF/BB interactions?

Left out some details because this is already a wall of text. Ask and I’ll elaborate. If anyone cares, Kate is super cool and I kind of love her.