Wanted to see what opinions you guys had on this.

When my ex of over 10 years broke up with me, I'm sure there where hypergermous intentions behind it, either that or she was sick of how our relationship wasn't heading in the direction she wanted, or at the pace she wanted, so had to jump ship to take up another opportunity available/find something more conforming to the people around her before she hit the wall.

I'd been having a certain type of thoughts for a while, but the last time I remember having them was around 2 months before we broke up, it was Christmas time and we had her parents over for dinner. I was thinking to myself 'Am I gonna leave this girl one day, when I meet somebody I'm more attracted to and is more in tune with my approach to life and wants to do more for me' and 'Is the basic/small talk/pointless conversation I'm able to have with her parents what I want from that kind of relationship for the rest of my life'.

Another occurrence was when I was much younger and I broke up with her as I'd only been with a couple of girls and felt like I needed to experience more before I made a life decision.

I guess what I've left out here is that in the final years of our relationship, just when I was starting to focus on accepting we were going to be together for good, thus focusing on my saving/career, to exit the rat race as early as possible, while still doing everything I could to put in the work around the house and help her out with her life. She wasn't behind me and if anything unintentionally dragged me down due to her lack of interest in me sexually and to the way I thought and wanted to approach life.

So my question is, does Hypergamy exist for males, in the same way it does for females? Moving on to someone more attractive/interested/younger. Or was it just the lack of effort she was putting into me, while I was constantly thinking about how my actions would appear to her and how she'd feel, that drove those thoughts I had in the relationship.

At present I feel so lucky, since becoming fully MGTOW 2 years on from the breakup, it's such a relief to not always have to be thinking about how to attract the next female, wondering how they're all thinking about you and having to put up with all the awfulness that comes along with associating with them!