What I'm going to play with for now is incorporating some pushing movements with kettlebellsto target the wrist and forearm weakness/pain.

Weights are typically marginal compared to my actual lifts. I've used this technique in the past with success.

@Victor

Spouse no, girlfriends yes. I've even had plates pry into my personal journals/notes.

None of them have reacted negatively, most of them have pushed the thoughts verbally but concluded my line of thought was correct but feels inappropriate.

As for testing, mehhhh. More so calibrating my own game with each passing relationship I get a little softer/give less fucks without being such an ass about it.

What do you guys do for wrist pain/popping?

I do glides for ulnar nerve entrapment already but my wrist have been bothering me after pushing movements regardless of weight/reps.

Is it as simple as adding some wrist movements to strengthen them?

@mattyanon

First LTR since 2014. Got burnt out of bar hos. This one seemed solid up until I moved her in. She quit working on herself, thus the relationship shortly after.

Ran through some bar hos post break up and it just doesn't scratch my wants from females.

@Kloi

Most women only have sex with men they'd want to be in a relationship with (at least most of the time from what I've personally gathered) unless he's a placeholder bf after a particularly rough pump and dump

Sometimes it's "just sex" but they hamster why they want a relationship

Anyway, it's just sad but true, women view sex as a transaction much of the time. World's oldest profession for a reason

@Vermillion-Rx

I'd wager it's more of 1 than 2.

I've met very few women who genuinely, only want sex. That being said most of these hos are acting and couldn't muster behaving well in an LTR. At least without more guidance than I'm willing to give.

@First-light

@kloi

Most of this is because women fail to notice that the grass is green where they water it and not because it's greener on the other side of the fence

@Kloi

hos and the hos have more respect than the singular woman of two years.

This is an illusion

They treat you better because they are:

1) trying to please you in case you upgrade them

2) all they want is sex, so if you give it to them they are fully satisfied as long as it lasts

If you were to commit to any of those hoes they would drop in treatment. It's an illusion. They treat you well because of circumstance, not principle

@First-light @Kloi

In addition to the difficulty of maintaining an LTR in the current mating landscape, this might also have to do with the "Fast vs Slow life strategy" model. LTRs need more pronounced Slow traits.

It's crazy how you can go from a relationship of 2 years plus to hos and the hos have more respect than the singular woman of two years.

There is some fault of my own for getting lazy or excepting behaviors that I shouldn't in a LTR.

My experience, to some fault of my own, is hos treat me better, than I require from LTRs.