Guys should go back to the basics.

Back when we were in high school we were aiming to do the least amount of work to get through the year and spend the rest of the time hanging out with our mates.

A big part of our fault is also that we accept to get dragged by women into a territory that is not ours which is made up of large amount of introspection, extremely fine margins between good times and awful times and walking on eggshells with regards to social cues , the avoidance of social faux passes, planning years and years into the future down to the smallest detail .

That's the perfect recipe for depression for guys

We should go back to the basics and hangout with our mates trying to do the least amount of work as possible, play sports, banter with each other, take everything much less seriously and when we feel the need to have sex shoot for ONS or visit escorts or prostitutes and then go back to our mates.

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munificent 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure from my understanding of human history and primate evolution that "long-term sexual/romantic partner" is, in fact, one of the basics.

	▲	vuurmot 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		sexual maybe romantic? really? I had an assumption that most of human history, marriage was more of an arranged marriage thing. With a lot of "women being treated as property", "heirs required for transfer of wealth", etc notation. And there were also societies that were polyamorous in nature? We are in a new world now, there is no need to force traditions (or worse yet, false traditions) that frankly doesn't seem to work anymore
	▲	JumpinJack_Cash 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Forget human history, that's the resultant of the median behavior optimized by Nature to produce the continuation of the specie. At the individual level the pinnacle of happiness is teenage years and early adulthood. Why wouldn't a rational individual not seek to prolong the behaviors in which one engaged during the pinnacle of happiness