Although this was probably not needed, I called my ex to ask her for closure. Despite what the internet says, it did help.

I found out a lot of things that weren't all even what I was calling to ask her about.

  1. She had her defenses up the whole time we were seeing each other, which was something that I'd considered but I didn't believe. Instead, I believed that she just wasn't into me. This was sperg black pilled thinking. Her actions showed that she was into me, but I wanted compliments and shit, despite the fact that I never really gave her many.

  2. She wrote a message about a month after we stopped seeing each other, telling me how much she never wants me in her life again and how she never wants to talk again, and how she's totally over me. She had never sent this to me but she had it saved and sent it to me the other day when I was blowing up her phone having a sperg attack (not my finest moment). I was able to turn the conversation around and talk to her on the phone to get answers to my questions, which admittedly a healthier person wouldn't need answers to. She told me that she wrote the message a month after we'd stopped seeing each other, and I asked if I had contacted her or had done something to prompt that. She said that I hadn't, but that she anticipated it. Yet any of the times I've contacted her before a couple days ago (again, for reasons that were due to poor mental condition), she did not send the message to me.

  3. Apparently she's been viewing my Instagram page and saw a story highlight of mine and got mad because I didn't used to post. She had already had my stories hidden and she didn't come up on the viewer list, and she confirmed that she viewed it on my page. This is after she typed that message about how she was over me.

  4. Apparently her ex who she had started seeing again at some point after I told her I didn't want a relationship was not some non-committal Alpha, and he was actually trying to commit to her. She said she didn't acknowledge his plans because she didn't want long distance (he told her he was moving when they were on the date when they reunited), but I don't believe her because to me it seems like she had cognitive dissonance and didn't want to admit that she was desperate for commitment. Regardless, the spergs were wrong when they said that her ex was an Alpha who just got the best of her without commitment.

What I've learned is that what you give is what you get. If you're a dick then a girl isn't going to shower you with compliments. I was kind of a dick honestly. I did notice at one point that on the occasions that I did something nice for her she complimented me more and did nice things for me.

Basically, I think that when you join the red pill you have to walk through a bunch of larpers who try to paint every dude with a question or dilemma as some kind of beta. This fucked with my head, and I saw a post recently here from a guy who was afraid to compliment his girlfriend or whatever during sex because of what the red pill says.

Guys, the narrative we see here so often is crazy. I treated this girl somewhat badly and she was very into me. Yet, some fucker who introduced me to the red pill (who I've just blocked a few days ago) told me that her ex was her Alpha Fucks. That's what prompted me to call. All of this Alpha Fucks/Beta Bucks shit is only a real risk if you're more retarded than me. It seems that a simple yet effective formula is to spend time with girls who treat you well, and then treat them in accordance to how they treat you.

So yeah, now that I've spent way too long obsessing about whether I'm a beta I can finally move on. Although for many it's easy to separate the exaggerated hysteria from reality, for me and many others we tend to see the worst and become blackpilled. So hopefully this post helps people realize that some of the extreme comments you see are not necessarily the truth.