I want to take time to thank this community. Just several months ago, not even a year, I was baker acted and admitted to a psych ward for 4 days because I had such bad anxiety, depression, mood swings, that coalesced into a sudden emotional (ego) breakdown.

With the help of my friends and family and mgtow I learned to accept my position in life, decide my next move and direction I wanted to go at a pivotal point in my early 20s. Mgtow to me has been an insightful introspective look at manhood and masculinity through a lenses that excludes femininity and sexual drive.

This rugged individualist prism is self aware enough to understand that femininity is meant to compliment masculinity; that sexual dynamics are in place for a reason. They are driving forces behind our evolution and success as a species. This is why mgtow does not preach for everyman to go off the grid and become a mountain man that only hunts and forages for food and avoids all socialization. Men going their OWN way isn't just a label but a mission statement. Every man is different but every man should go and do what will make him happy especially in the current crisis of happiness, health, employment, and relationships.

It behooves each man to understand the risks as well as rewards in dating, sex, and how society in general interfaces with you as a male of our species.

MGTOW simply asks the politically incorrect question: What does it mean to be a man, and what does it mean to you as a man?

I have had a rapid period of growth. I am healthy and fit, eager to continue to climb the ranks of my trade, enjoy my work, am being paid as much as I ever have, enjoy my time to myself, enjoy my time with friends, even enjoy my time with women and have found a cohesion and balance in my romantic and sexual interaction with them that works for me, at this point in my life, and her, that is fun, loving, and symbiotic (not dependent) (also shout out to TRP there).

Thank you. I am grateful to be a part of this digital male fraternity and hope it only grows from here. Cheers!