Please read the whole thing before you comment. Or not. There is no TL;DR..

I know red-pill pick up artists are a thing, but this mgtow... I agree with a lot of the philosophies but at the same time I see a very large number of neck-beardish opinions. Which is fine. Every extreme philosophy (feminism) will breed its opposite reaction. A race to the bottom.

What I am confused with is my own interpretation of values and what being a man is perceived to be or what I perceive it to be. Happiness to me is partially from success. Success is never attainable without risk. In career many successful men have taken extreme risks, basically an all or nothing gamble and found happiness and success. Though the risks there are nothing or much gain. Not lose everything.

What I'm getting to is I feel like if I don't take certain risks with relationships I'll never be successful in that part of my life, and it feels like that makes me not a men but chicken shit. To be fair The risks just seem too high especially since I own guns too now. There is just too much to lose. All I need is someone to file for a false domestic violence and its all gone. I mean I am a gambling man. I play the lottery. People ask why the chances are low, but its not like I will miss $5. Low risk high reward. Relationships seem high risk, high reward in very few instances.

So what I am saying is I feel like a failure in yet an other area in my life, and that this whole mgtow thing could be no more than sour grapes.