@Goingthedistance It sounds like you are doing all the right things, building the big picture of your life and when the pieces are all in place women usually turn up. Don't worry about the late blooming. Many of us were late bloomers.

Its often easier to see from the outside when there are too many red flags than when you are on the inside. You are supposed to see good in her, you are supposed to bond to her and trust in the relationship (if you are not broken from too much casual sex or failed relationships).

I always tell my children that the time to decide if someone is right for you is not when you have been dating a while but "Before you say hello". I don't mean before you are introduced (because that would be plain impossible) but before you give any indicator of interest. Once you start something, it can gain its own inertia and the glasses are supposed to be rose tinted if you are not damaged. To avoid wasting time (and becoming disillusioned with love) one has to screen critically and with disinterest before deciding if you are even attracted to someone. Then the odds are whatever happens, it won't end too badly.

Obviously you can't make a perfect initial screen (because you don't know that much at first) but if you are only talking to people who pass that screen and who you really fancy physically, the chances of something like this happening again are less. If you had said "Claimed virgin, does that mean just plain frigid or medical problem or too mentally unsuitable, I must look deeper before chatting her up. I will talk to her just as an acquaintance". Then "Ah takes sleeping pills, yes there is a mental aspect here probably..."

It sounds like it will all work out well in the long term anyway. You have the macros falling into place.

@WokeDown I think you are right that people are going to grow different crops to what they have become used to and bread baskets will shift. Egypt used to be biggest bread basket for the Roman empire -producing a surplus of 26 million metric tonnes of wheat. Climate change changed all that.

Food has been at its cheapest in history over the last few decades -thanks to agricultural diesel. That can't last forever. The heavy tractors are damaging the soil for one thing. Climate change and weather instability will add to the pressure on food prices. They will however have to get far worse before they are anything like the proportion of income that our ancestors had to put aside for food.

Realistically its not that big a deal when you consider the things humanity has gone through before with far less technology to protect it but yeah if we could conquer the third world and make it comply, we probably could make a difference to global warming but as it is, they make our stuff by adding to global warming and we send the electronic money for it.

@woodsmoke I agree with all that. Well said.

I have stood in Viking ruins on a large currently uninhabited island in greenland and wondered just what kind of men these were. I think Eric the Red pulled of the biggest PR coup ever there. The first thing I noticed about all the Viking ruins I saw versus ancient Eskimo settlements was that the Vikings wanted to live on flatter land next to water. The Eskimos thought more about the utility of the place and moved when water was short. This meant that the poor Vikings lived in some of the most mosquito infested hell holes imaginable. Those mosquitoes are huge and hungry. One morning when I was bored I thought to count the number on the entrance flap to my small 2 man tent. I stopped at 200. To have actually tilled that thin peaty soil under those clouds of mosquitos ...men of iron.

I do wonder what the ladies thought and said to their husbands when they arrived there...

@woodsmoke I am just not that worried about climate change.

What does trouble me is the need many of us on the right feel to deny its existence. It certainly seems to be getting warmer. I expect humans have something to do with it but actually its no big deal. Its not like humans have not been through natural climate change before that was of greater magnitude. The planet was getting colder in the mini ice age which was a problem for farmers in marginal regions of western countries and the air was gradually getting thinner of Co2 over the millions of years that carbon has been sequestered. Co2 is needed for the plants which prop up the food chain. Then along came the industrial revolution and things got better. What's not to like? Yeah maybe the North face of the Eiger and the Troll wall are winter only climbing venues now. I think we can live with that.

Human brains have got bigger and technology has improved when there has been has been climate change in the past. Lets embrace it and work with it not stand like king Canute in the fable trying to resist nature.

I just say "Its happening, get over it libtards. The west has far bigger problems than cheap heating bills and bigger storms"

@Vermillion-Rx Sounds good but can you make a proper cock bomb version not one of these soy boy vegan sounding things full of natural supplements but full of good gear?

A Chinese gent on the internet was selling these things that had 100mg viagra, 20mg cialis and some other stuff I had never heard of all in one tab. The lad in my gym who tried it said it worked fine but it gave him such a headache that he couldn't even fap. I recon if you took the other thing I never heard of out, you might be able to make a product that would help us all.

Deca has been really good for me both physically and mentally as I strive to maximise myself. But if I ever come out of self development monk mode, stop living between the gym and my mum's basement and actually talk to girls, I think I am going to need a proper cock bomb to reactivate the apparatus.

I think you could call it the "Red pill?"