I am a 50-year-old single (never married) male currently living in Northern Virginia. I haven’t had a real long-term relationship with a woman since coming of age — mainly because I have always preferred living alone. So in a way I was MGTOW for years before I ever came across the term.

When I was growing up, the world seemed to be divided between people who liked to harass others and people who pretended not to notice. My mother was a godawful person — quick to fly into a rage over nothing, violent, unforgiving, and perfectly fine to argue with my father over stuff that had happened thirty years before. (I was sitting in the kitchen listening to this and thinking, “I’m only sixteen. If Dad can’t be forgiven for stuff that happened decades ago, what chance have I got?”) A number of the females around my age were the same way. So I came away early with the idea that I’d never marry.

I was originally attracted to the MGTOW community via YouTube. People would post videos about their experiences with women, about people trying to shame you by saying you’re “not a man” or you “can’t get laid,” etc. Eventually I made my way to a number of MGTOW forums. I come to forums like this mainly to read unfettered information about what really drives women (and to some extent men), and not the tropes we’ve all been fed about the relationships between the sexes since we were kids.

I was employed for thirteen years and then laid off. The company decided that temps from India would be cheaper than having full-time employees, I guess. So I’m unemployed but living off my savings at the moment.

I am a “ghost” — I don’t draw attention to myself and I don’t socialize. I live frugally, for the most part; I don’t go traveling or spend time “living it up.” I am also pessimistic about my country’s future; it seems to be on a downward slide toward becoming another Greece: Our government is spending money hand over fist, and no one with any real power seems to care. So I hope to just live as comfortably as I can.

As for my interests outside MGTOW: I like to read, and I like to watch science documentaries and science fiction (Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica 1978, Lost). I’m very fond of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, and my favorite TV show when I was a kid was “Land of the Lost.” And I’m also one of no-doubt countless people in the world who’ve been working sporadically on a novel for years now (when I’m not reading up on how to write a novel that people will actually read). I have a dream that I’ll actually finish the damn thing, upload it to Amazon, and see a little income coming in from it.

BTW, Dilbert did a series on writing a few days ago.

Living MGTOW is the best security a man can have against this onslaught, that’s why it p~~~es me off to hear alleged MGTOW speaking of prenuptial as something that is legitimate and binding. A grenade is a grenade, a prenuptial is just a form of begging the grenade to explode in a specified way, it does nothing for the damage, or the extraction when the dust settles. Anybody talking prenuptial is tying the knot around his neck, and contributing to the institution of governmental matrimony. They should be flushed from the MGTOW community, and asked to join AVFM or MRA’S, that nonsense doesn’t jive with going your own way, and contaminates this community with toxic clam juice. NEVER GET EMOTIONALLY OR LEGALLY INVESTED IN A WOMAN, WHY? BECAUSE AWALT, and so is their hive!

I see it three ways;

1, the c~~~ carousel.

2, The Marry ‘go’ round and round (man slaughter extraction machine).

3, The MGTOW, from carousel rider to monk. (zero extraction, multitudes of cats, and their cat ladies)

Does anybody see it different?

Looks like you have some cool hobbies there, and writing a novel can be a daunting task even for the most skilled writers out there. But keep at it, nothing great comes easy, and you’ll definitely have quite a few sells with all of us. I love a good book, especially something that has some sci-fi elements.