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Yes, Opposites Attract. But…
Relationships were never meant to replace the frustrations, lessons, and challenges that naturally unfold in our personal self-development, but to be an extension of it.
Personally, I believe that the 4B movement, MGTOW, and any other offshoots of the single lifestyle where men and women are separating from one another to discover who they are and what they’re made of for themselves, without any physical, sexual, emotional, mental, or spiritual interruptions from their biological desires for love, sex, companionship, and validation from others, is not as damaging as our society is making it out to be.
Sure, birth rates are now at an all-time low. Sure, men and women are avoiding one another and nobody is getting married, or dating, or fucking. But…is this such a bad thing, especially when you look past the gender wars and trauma bonds to realize that at the end of the day both parties are seeking enlightenment? Isn’t this the point of the human experience?
Sometimes, the only way out is through. And this “through” does not always look pretty. It can present to us a tunnel of extremes, but maybe it’s not extreme at all but completely necessary! For the longest we have conveniently used the endless, almost addictive, pursuit of relationships to cover up how deeply damaged and unfulfilled we are as individual human beings, and one must ask what…
