The other tidbit that made me laugh was the timeline she is putting on everything. Who schedules their life down like that? Women who believe in real life Disney fantasies, that’s who.

If I may add, they never stop for a moment to question whether their partner approves of that timeline, they just assume their partner owes them commitment and will happily provide it (which is a complete reversal of the "men are the gatekeepers to commitment" thing). And when their partner doesn't give the commitment he never agreed to in the first place, it's somehow his fault.

Just tell those women you are not religious and don't believe in marriage. And that even civil marriage is a whitewashed version of a religious affair (which btw it is, marriage stopped having a civil meaning when no-fault divorce became a thing and infidelity in marriage stopped being a crime, now it's just a contract that's abusive to the breadwinner with some religious undertones). So, you don't even have to lie. You don't owe anyone marriage.

That said, the man outright lied to her, but that's what she gets for dating Chad. Chad doesn't care if his lies catch up with him, because he can pull out his phone and replace her in a matter of hours, which will allow him start fresh. That's what Chad's being doing ever since he was a teenager, and it hasn't failed him so far.

The thing that slipped by me at first is how she will be “ready to settle down” once she completes her Ph.D. In case you don’t speak womanese, she was planning on getting knocked up by a rich Chad with a high earning potential (see degree requirements) so she wouldn’t have to work.

Louder for the dumbasses in the back that are coping hard about being slated for pay-pig duties.

What makes this so funny is how she thought she had dodged a bullet. She's 32 years old which may seem like not a big deal, but she realizes she doesn't have a lot of time. She was hoping to settle down by age 35 or so which is when the biological clock goes off. Heck, her grilling him about his status on the 2nd date showed just how poorly she's emotionally handling the pressure. The guys that don't walk away worrying about being used as an ATM and sperm bank will pump and dump her.

Tick tock tick tock.

I have nothing to add, but I damn sure wanted to give you your props for this comment sir. SPOT. ON.

Good comment.

So fucking true.

I knew these two skanks that used to come into the bar and they thought they were all high and mighty with their advanced studies. It was clearly a status thing, they bandied that about while I was doing some work, as if I was a lowly peon and they were so great.

Funny thing is, I got out of there and am currently worth more than those two bitches put together -- and I mean more than their total lifetime earnings. I bet they're tending some cats and a dying plant right now, not having "settled" for a guy.

Too funny.

I have masters and my wife has high school. She also has no debt, no tattoos, n count of 2, is low-maintenance, and came highly qualified to be a wife and mother. I'd probably kill myself if I had to be with one of these insufferable kunts in the OP.

Lying by omission is a liar’s favorite tool. It’s so easy to fool people.

“I haven’t been dating for five years! I’m not like most girls” (by “dating” she means Olive Garden. She has, in fact, been getting fucked so much that she has to alternate holes to counteract the soreness. But she hasn’t been doing relationship stuff for five years).

You know its bad when even reddit is mostly telling her she's fucked up in the head

Not so fast. Reddit is where people in the right get told that they are wrong. The only reason there is an eclipse here is because the average Redditor has down syndrome and can’t fault someone for not being successful.

What's even more funny is that the intelligence genes in kids usually comes from the father. My wife is like 90IQ and our son is top of his class(so was I).

Something to consider is that he's not a poor guy, really. He is college educated, after all, and his degree isn't about just impressing his friends or his dual doctor parents but earning a literal living to support a family. That's why he suggested that they take some time apart. Let's review their situations: He's still under 30 and has had a major relationship under his belt. He can probably sleep with lower class women or single mothers just to be sexually active. She, on the other hand, is facing a narrow range of suitable men who have PhD ready to commit to having children in under 3 years and that's assuming they don't run away screaming from her after she asks for their university transcripts and sperm count on the 2nd date.

He's fine.

Agreed. He shouldn't have lied in the first place and put himself in this situation to begin with. I know I am skirting Rule 3 here but this status whore is gonna keep him under her thumb from now on. Her parents are going to keep pestering her to find a more established higher earning professional so she will be even more resentful towards the guy. If he becomes a lawyer, it still won't be good enough because he needs to make partner or he better have his own firm. I hope for the guys sake that he just cuts her loose because he is on borrowed time if he stays with her.

Literally the first thing a job seeker looks for is whether the pay is good enough. We want to see if what’s in it for us is satisfactory. You can look for whatever you want as an employer, but if you’re offering entry level wages and demanding senior level performance, then you’ll have a vacancy for a long time. Maybe a few employers find a desperate person willing to fill the role, but they don’t stick around for long

Whether it's wasted on all women or not, for sure it's wasted on this woman. Why do I say that? She states she has an MA i.e. Master of Arts i.e. a useless liberal arts degree, and she's doubling down with a PhD in it. The only useful PhDs are in STEM (and even that's debatable; usually your salary in industry goes down if you have a PhD vs a BS or MS). That's not what she's getting. I'm even more certain of it when you look at the timeline: she started last year, and will graduate in 2.5 years. That is, her program lasts only 3 years. No real PhD course, where you have to actually demonstrate the ability to create new knowledge within your field, lasts that short a time. You can't even do a real research project in that time, nevermind defend a thesis too, which usually takes a year by itself. IOW, all the evidence points to this being a fluff degree.

And as you mention, after that PhD, then what? A post-doc? Some shitty non-tenure track assistant professor role in a community college? Barista at the local Starbucks? Who exactly employs some PhD "expert" on German medieval literature?

That's what makes this whole episode even funnier. Her PhD is worthless even as a signifier of a respectable credential. At parties, when someone says they have a PhD, the first thing people ask is "in what?" And if the answer is "The history of gender oppression in Elizabethan England" rather than "theoretical particle physics" no one will be impressed nor fooled into thinking she's intelligent. She'd be more respected if she just had a BA in history, called it quits after that and got some boring job in HR that at least paid the bills.

If both her parents were physicians, and she values education so much, I would bet good money she was initially pre-med. But pre-med is, like, you know, hard and stuff. She failed that, and failed other professional tracts (professionals like doctors and lawyers generally push their kids to be professionals as well, not starving PhDs), and so was left with the educational equivalent of a gentleman's C: when your BA was in something stupid and you got bad grades to boot, it's tempting to spin your wheels in a masters, and when you still don't have great job prospects, double down by sticking around for a PhD. Eventually you'll come out with something that you can convince yourself (and no one else) gives you value, while you've spent 5 years making yourself less employable than the 22 year old version of yourself with just a bachelor's.

If I was the guy, I would have left after that 2nd date. Even the worst gold diggers try to hide their motives by pretending they're just really into you and just want to keep it casual and couldn't care less about your ability to earn gobs of money. If a woman is so oblivious, self-unaware, or downright stupid as to give up their true motives that early, by grilling you about your job and future plans before you've even decided whether you want to be serious, then consider that a gift from God and bolt before things go south.

One of the skills you learn once you become a high value guy is the ability to sus these women out. But sometimes a woman makes it easy for you. For example, I remember once, my friend, myself, and a few women from his work went out for a night of drinking and dancing. His co-workers were cute, and I even fancied one of them, especially after she undid a few buttons on her blouse before coming out on the dance floor with me :-) Later that night though, my friend told me this girl asked him "Ogrilla is a , right? They make a lot of money, don't they?" Of course, he being a great wingman, praised my earning potential to the heavens until I sounded like the second coming of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos combined. I laughed, but that was when she was instantly moved to "will never be more than a plate" status. He should have done the same.

I'm chuckling because most men for the past 2 generations or so had to lie to women to propagate the species. Do men enjoy paying for dinner dates and saying the "right things" women want to hear to reach the 2nd date and beyond? "No means maybe, tee hee!" "I don't like men who quit easily, here's a shit test!" "Real men don't let truth, morals, or honesty get in their way!"

Oh my God!!!! A man said what a woman wanted to hear to get nookie! Can you believe it!?!?!

On the flip side, "nice guys" and "honest men" don't get action and are mocked as incels and losers. It's almost... as if... there's little motivation for modern men to be honest or nice!

Not only that, but what harm has happened here? He wasn't just looking for tail, apparently, but provided her with a (mostly) genuine, empathic relationship. HOW AWFUL!!! Instead of her rejecting man after man or being academic chad's playtoy, he showed her what it would be like to possibly have a family.

I chuckled as I typed "academic chad's playtoy" because the reason why the pickin's are few in Academia for hypergamous women is that wokeness is on steroids there. The few PhDs who aren't gay or trans know they could lose EVERYTHING they worked decades for on the most flimsy of women's gripes. Heck, I read a news article a few months ago about some professor who broke up with his professor girlfriend and she destroyed his whole academic career.

No he wasn’t in the wrong, he said what he needs to say to pump her and get all the sex he could before the inevitable marriage talk came up, and now she said herself the wedding plans are pushed back 5 years. Guy should sell a course.

At the risk or going against the grain: he was wrong for lying (especially about something that's a red flag for her), and he compounded it by not coming clean every time he saw her. She has every right to be pissed: her standards are hers alone.

I actually agree with that - it's her right to be dumb, and she should either learn or live with the consequences of going full ostrich and sticking her head in the sand. I do feel bad about the guy because he honestly believed that she was above him, and thus he had to lie to get a shot with her; if he had any awareness, he would've gotten up as soon as the Gestapo questioning started and walked away, knowing that this kind of woman is not worth the squeeze. But the conditioning was too strong, and since he really wanted to be a part of the game, he cheated a bit. He'll only realise that the game is rigged against him (and that the only way to win a game rigged this bad is not playing) when he loses badly.