/lit/ - Literature

I too have read The Hero With a Thousand Faces

>>10932408
I've begun to see that it is the man's fault just as much as the woman's...

>>10932408
board is dead 17 year old redditors an /pol/acks killed it

>>10932408
>The absolute state of heteros

You shouldn't be bitter about girls. You should blame yourself for any hurt they give you for thinking that there some angelic beings. Holy shit, girls are human

>>10932408
That's if you let her. Undoubtedly our sexual impulses are really powerful which makes it easy for women to manipulate us, but if you think with your head and not your dick, you'll be fine.

>>10932522
I’m not bitter about girls I’m acknowledging their power over a male

>>10932522
>You shouldn't be bitter about girls. You should blame yourself for any hurt they give you for thinking that there some angelic beings
I don't think you have to think of a woman as an angelic being to be hurt by them. It's a natural consequence of falling in love and then having that person turn on you in some way, even if they're completely justified in doing so. The tragedy of subjectivity and never being able to fully understand the other. You can see the tragedy of miscommunication a lot in Chekhov's stories.

>>10932556
love is an emotion like any other and if you are an adult you should be able to control your emotions

don't fall in live with someone who is likely to hurt you, brainlet

>>10932647
Everyone will hurt you, brainlet

>>10932408
>Mill absolutely ass-blasted into the vacuous void of outer space
Freddy did truly BTFO everyone, including himself

>>10932647
>don't fall in live with someone who is likely to hurt you, brainlet
Wow sounds like we've got a real tough guy.

>>10932677
This. Emotional pain is a part of life, you can try to avoid it but you'll have to deal with it at some point. It'll probably help you grow as a person too rather than being a coward.

>>10932677
peanut butter posters are retarded and I am not going to respond to them anymore
>>10932688
not about being tough, just using common sense and analysing if the emotional investment is worth it

>>10932506
This.
rip in piss /lit/

>>10932701
>not about being tough, just using common sense and analysing if the emotional investment is worth it
>muh common sense

That's why you have to be hurt in the first place, I think you're missing my point. You live and learn, love and pain are intimately correlated. Also looking at emotions in such a utilitarian way (who the fuck says "emotional investment") might mean you're a sociopath. Don't get me wrong, I understand what you mean, there are relationships that I wish I had ended before they took off but what can you do. Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.

>>10932701
>I can sort people who have an arbitrary label into levels of intelligence
>I have superior intelligence
HAHAHA stop posting

Don't use the other person to accomplish your goal of having an idealized relationship that can only exist in a book.

Or simpler, don't use other people.
I've seen people 30+ marry only because it's their last chance to form a family. At the same time they spout some shit about love like a teenager.

I like how the movie L'Avventura handles this topic. Especially the part in which the guy runs up in a building to search for his lost former girlfriend, the camera follows the girl waiting for him outside and men start to appear around her implying the question "Well, why not love one of them? Where is the difference?"

Just have a fun time together if you feel a chemistry and appreciate every second of it because it's not gonna last.

>he hasn't read taming of the shrew

>>10932529
This flip flops at about the age of 32 in ways (you) wouldn't believe..

>>10932408
i grew out of this mindset at around age 22. i had one last 'intense' relationship like that and then I just somehow became like fatigued of women, and see them in much less dramatic terms now.