At 18 the best thing you can do is go experience life rather than reading about it. You determine what you have to look forward to.

Women can be good if you are a great man; they are as good as they have to be to get the desirable males in their life.

I endorse plates because you're at an age where you are still forming your frame and sense of identity. A hot girl who's had more experience being high value and getting what she wants through manipulation WILL stunt on your face and WILL pull you away from your life goals by fucking with your state. Plates keep enough distance that you don't wind up relying on her and becoming a bitch. When you get a LTR, your mind starts to forget the universal truth of RP - you are in this ALONE - and you get soft.

Don't worry about women dude. Fuck this shit, you need a plan to get to the top 1% of men. Women are beautiful when you're at the top and they want you. Trust me, if you are better than them and they know it, they treat you well and are fun, energizing concentrates of emotion. Instead of draining you and frustrating you, they will invigorate you. But that only comes when you are superior and they have no doubt of this; if they do not see you as superior, they do all the hamstery bitchy crap you described.

So if you just use the fact that you're young and have time of your side to build a platform of high SMV (career, money, body, game, posture, speech, dress, social status, etc) then you have a lot of great stuff to look forward to.

It is a fundamentally disappointing reality, but it's a beautiful one. You really are free, and freedom is the ultimate male goal. You have so many different paths to high sexual value, and they all are rewarding and fulfilling if you commit your passion and drive to them. The red pill is that women treat 95% of men like dogshit, and 4% like human beings, and 1% like gods.

All you should be thinking about is how you're going to reach that 1% or at least 5%. Don't be thinking about women and solipsism and hypergamy and cock carousel and wall and such and such, don't worry about that shit. Think about what you are going to be great at, how you're going to construct a great career and life, and how your going to intellectually, physically, and emotionally improve yourself every day. How are you going to become a superior male? What's the plan?

If you don't have a deep, multifaceted plan that has some short term aspects and some multi-year aspects... if you are not currently progressing in your large-scale mission as a man... then how are you better than these dumb thots spending their alimony on a bimmer lease? You have superior faculties as a man, and thus, the threshold is higher for you, more is expected from you.

Women don't like younger men ... when I was 18 few women looked at me, I thought I was ugly. Around my mid-20s I started getting a lot more attention, getting told a lot by women that I was good-looking, it took me a long time to believe it. But you need to work on it.

...at first her brand new BMW and well paying job made me think she'd be somewhat unplugged.

Odds are that the BMW is not paid for and she has piles of student loans and big credit card debts.

She's basically screaming out:

"I'm trapped in debt, working too much, and want out."

From there I knew I was talking to the hollow plate of someone with a far, far higher SMV than me, 20 years of age difference will do that.

Post Wall.

What the hell are you thinking?

This woman is 38?

She's a Cougar.

 

• No matter how well presented they are, all women are like that.
• Women are incapable of understanding their own Solipsism.

Assume all guns are loaded.

• I have little to no SMV with women older than me.

Grow a beard.

• The reason why contributors endorse plates is because it's the best way to deal with them.

It is the most practical solution to the modern conundrum.

• Lifting is more important than anything.

Finding and pursuing your mission is more important than anything. Your statement is only true if bodybuilding/fitness/professional sport is your mission. Plus most of those guys point out that nutrition/diet is even more important.

You are miles ahead by recognizing solipsism, feelz, and hamstering for what they are...at 18 years young. If only I knew about those things when I was that age.

You do have high SMV with crazy women who are older than you. Be very careful here. If you are not fully cognizant of your SMV they can and will use and abuse you if you let them. But like I said, you are miles ahead by even recognizing these things so keep it up.

They aren't all complete garbage but none of them are ideal, and they certainly aren't the quality that our grandparents had.

Some are serviceable enough to keep around for a time. Finding one that is worth having a kid with is difficult. Sounds like you found a bad one but they get much, much worse.

Those that are worth having get locked down early and permanently, the trick is getting access to the good ones. You are still in the young age group where it isn't creepy to target those girls, stay the fuck away from cougars and get approaching.

She wanted to meet my dog

Did she? Or did you completely miss some ulterior motive here?

You're young, have some fun, and stop over-thinking and worrying about other people's problems. In due time you'll waste a hell of a lot less time with people like this, or worrying about their finances.