Relationship Series: Recaps, Takeaways, and One Last Note
Well, that time has come - time to wrap up our
relationship series.
This has been a long collection of articles about the topic of relationships we’ve put out over the last several weeks… and if you asked me to, I could easily write another one just as long. Relationships are simply an incredibly complex topic, with a million little counterintuitive nuances.
Every time you think you’ve got them down… you don’t.
On the one hand, many of the rules we learn for dating go out the window… the game changes completely once you get into a monogamous, committed relationship with a girl.
On the other hand, you still can’t suddenly be a pushover, so a lot of the inner game advice still applies… and where and how to apply everything and in the right context is certainly an art and a science unto itself.
A lot of readers had written in with questions about relationships… and in my experience, this is what a large portion of our students ultimately want to get out of this game… sure, it’s nice to have a lot of choice in beautiful women, and sure, it’s nice to at least have the ability to live a playboy lifestyle for a while.
But when it comes down to it, most guys don’t really want to live life as far out as Chase or myself. The two of us have taken dating to the extreme, which is why we’re now in a position to teach just about anybody about almost any situation – after a decade of obsessing over this skill the way an Agassi would obsess over the game of tennis, there aren’t many situations we haven’t experienced yet. You might not want to be this obsessive… most people don’t.

In yesterday’s post on ways you can 

I’ve
been seeing more guys than usual engaged in long
distance
relationships lately. And it’s not an uncommon situation to end up in
in our increasingly mobile world - one or both partners leaves to
attend school in a different city, or even country; she leaves or you
leave to take a job somewhere else in the world.
Have you ever noticed how women sometimes launch into
Let’s pick up
where we left off in “
Here's another diversion from the ordinary (we're
getting a lot of
that this week - the "
Now that
we’ve covered a lot of the fundamentals of
relationships -
everything from love to