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Why are you dating the current women in your life right now? If you have a girlfriend or wife, why do you have her?

I mean, why are you not single instead?

Why aren’t you with a different woman?

Why her specifically?  And why now?

I can already hear your answers…

Because she’s really hot.

Okay, she’s hot. But hundreds of thousands of other women in your local city within a one-hour drive from your home are also “really hot.” So that isn’t the answer.

Because she’s really fun and chill.

That’s great. But again, statistically speaking there are thousands upon thousands of women in your local city who are just as fun and chill as her, if not more so. So that isn’t the answer either.

Because the sex is great. She does all the things I like!

See above. Not the answer.

Because she’s super low-maintenance and I don’t want anything serious right now.

See above. Not the answer.

She’s really hot/chill but no other girl this hot/chill would ever date me, so I have to stick with her.

Jesus God. I really hope I don’t have to explain to you how horrible, beta, pathetic, embarrassing, and oneitisy that reason is. I hope to hell that really isn’t your reason and that you have such a low opinion of yourself. Moreover, it isn’t accurate. Statistically speaking, if one hot girl will fuck you, that means by definition some other hot girls will also. I figured that one out way back in 2007. So not only are you being a pathetic beta male loser with that attitude, but you’re also factually wrong.

Because I’m a needy pussy and I have oneitis.

Well, at least you’re being honest, I’ll give you that. Admitting you have a problem is the first step so that’s good.

But now you have to fix the problem, which means you need to fix your oneitis instead of making excuses for it. This means you need to start having sex with other women hotter than her immediately and either nicely dump her or downgrade her. Oneitis will destroy you if you don’t address it ASAP.

Because I’m lazy and I don’t want to take the time to find a new woman (or women) right now.

See the item above. Stop tolerating chronic unhappiness. Do you think I do that?

Maybe you are arguing that your answers are more deep than the above superficial ones. Maybe your answer is something like…

She’s a really good woman who my mom and dad would be proud of if I married her / have kids with her.

Ohhhhh boy. Beta male alert again. This is a problem. This is directly out of Societal Programming and the Six Societal Values (as I talk about in my primary book, The Unchained Man), specifically social validation, which means you are trying to impress other people instead of doing what YOU want. This will make you happy in the short term and absolutely fucking miserable in the long term.

So if your answer is anything like that, that should be a huge warning red alert that you are traveling down the path of the beta male or the Alpha Male 1.0, neither of which leads to long-term happiness, and you need to re-orient your brain and your life fast.

She’d make a really good mother and I want to have kids someday.

If you want to have kids someday then mother potential should be reason number two, three, or four on the list. It should NEVER, EVER be reason number one, the first thing out of your mouth when I ask why you’re with her. I personally know (and you probably do too) men who are married or living with a woman who is a good mother but who is a dreadful wife or girlfriend. These men are fucking miserable and have horrible relationships/marriages 100% of the time.

Because I’m a devout Christian/Muslim/Jew/Buddhist/<insert other false religion here> and she is also, and it’s important to me.

There are thousands of other women of that same religion in your city besides her, so that’s not the answer.

What I’m trying to get across to you is that the vast majority of men are with the woman/women in their lives for all the wrong reasons. If you’re following the path of Alpha Male 2.0 and long-term consistent masculine happiness in our collapsing world, there is only One Reason that you’re with any particular woman at any particular time. Just one. All the other reasons your dumb societally-brainwashed man brain comes up with either don’t matter at all, are completely irrelevant, or matter somewhat but not nearly as much as the One Reason.

What is this One Reason? It’s very simple.

The One Reason: The net happiness she creates for you consistently is extreme.

I shall explain every part of that statement because there are several pieces to this.

Starting off, it means that she makes you happier being in your life than if she wasn’t in your life.

If she makes you net unhappier in your life than if she wasn’t in your life, then she shouldn’t be in your life. Nothing else matters. It doesn’t matter if she’s hot or smart or fun she is, or if she’s a Christian or loves Trump or gives great blowjobs. Literally thousands of other women in your city can do those things too (and if you don’t think this, then you have hardcore oneitis and you have much bigger problems). So she should be nicely booted out of your life right now, and I mean right now.

If she makes you about the same happy as if she wasn’t in your life at all, then again, she shouldn’t be in your life. This is because women, even low-maintenance FBs, take some effort to maintain. Spending this time and effort for no net gain in happiness is stupid. So she should nicely be booted out of your life as well.

If she makes you more happy being in your life than her not being in your life, this is good, but we’re not done.

Firstly, you need to be 100% honest when you say, “She makes me happy.” When it comes to wives or long-term girlfriends, a lot of men are lying to themselves about this, especially when they’re betas, and especially when the woman is really hot or if they have kids with her. They will say “She makes me happy,” but in reality she makes him unhappy as fuck. Sometimes it’s too emotionally difficult to man up and speak the truth.

Hey, I get it. 20 years ago in my first marriage when I was a beta male it took me some time to get the balls to admit to myself that my wife at the time wasn’t making me more happy… but the point is that I eventually got to the point of brutal honesty about this and took action to fix it, unlike most other men. Again, step one in solving a problem is admitting you have a problem.

So you need to be honest about this and not bullshit yourself.

Secondly, the One Reason doesn’t just say “She makes you happy.” That’s not good enough. It says the net happiness she creates for you consistently is extreme.

Net happiness means the amount of happiness she creates for you minus the work, effort, money, and/or unhappiness she causes you. Like I said, every woman in your life, even low-end FBs, comes with a cost. That cost isn’t just money. It will be time, emotion, effort, and/or energy. And yeah, it can also represent a cost in money if she’s a sugar baby, wife, or long-term girlfriend.

On top of that, in any relationship beyond an FB, you’re going to likely have some unhappiness attached to the relationship. She’ll bitch, complain, and/or argue with you at least a little bit because she’s A) a human and B) a woman biologically wired and societally programmed to want certain things you’re not going to give her (like monogamy, ass-kissing, seeing her more than once a week, etc).

This is acceptable as long as the drama is minimal and you manage it correctly with systems like the Cardinal Rules and Soft Nexting. The point here is that likely she’ll create at least some unhappiness for you sometimes.

This negativity, financial cost, time, effort, emotions, and energy you have to spend or put up with to keep her in your life “deducts” from the happiness she creates for you. Whatever happiness is left over (if there is any) is the net happiness she gives you.

For example, you are married to a wife who is a good mother and is physically attractive but she’s extremely expensive, horribly demanding, argues with you all the time, and almost never has sex with you. So she gives you four “units” of happiness by being a good mom and being hot, but she deducts seven units of happiness, meaning her net happiness generated for you is -3. This is bad, and therefore you should dump her ass as quickly as possible, yes, even if you have to go through a shitty divorce and/or custody battle to do it. In the long term, you’ll be happier.

Here’s another example. You have an OLTR girlfriend who is super hot, fantastic in bed, really chill and fun, loves the shit out of you, never gives you drama, is totally cool with you having sex with other women, and wants all the same things in life you want. However, she’s needy and cries all the time. So she generates 11 units of happiness but deducts three, meaning her net happiness generated for you is eight, which is great. She’s probably a keeper even though she’s not perfect.

Those examples are pretty straightforward. However, there are many examples, perhaps even most real-life situations, where things are a little more complicated.

Let’s say you have you have an MLTR who is very hot and very fun to be with. However, she is constantly bitching and moaning that you haven’t made her your girlfriend yet, demands monogamy all the time, and badmouths you behind your back to all of her friends. She also gets drunk a lot and has constant financial problems, all of which affect you directly to some degree.

So in her case, she has she generates 6 units of happiness for you but deducts 5, meaning her net happiness generated for you is one. That means she creates net happiness for you, so she should stay, right?

Wrong. The One Reason states the net happiness she creates for you consistently is extreme. One isn’t extreme. It’s not anywhere near the eight that the hypothetical OLTR above generates. One net unit of happiness is nice, but it’s not worth all the time, energy, emotions, effort, and possibly money this woman costs you to achieve a measly one point of net happiness.

The business parallel is the guy who has a business that generates a million dollars in year in gross revenue that takes him 60 hours a week to produce, and after all of his expenses, his annual profit is only $80,000. A moron would say, “Hey, that’s good, he makes $80,000 a year…. that’s not bad!” But an intelligent person seeking long-term happiness would observe that all that time, effort, stress, and money to make $80K from friggin’ $1 million isn’t worth it and that guy should shut down that business ASAP and do something else, which he should.

A LOT of men out there, possibly even you, have relationships like this. Sure, there is a net in happiness she produces for you, but the net is pretty small because of all the goddamn work and bullshit she creates for you on are regular basis. There are thousands of other women in your local city who will produce more net happiness for you for much less work, and that’s a fact.

Therefore, this woman should be (nicely) dumped. She’s not worth it because the net happiness she creates for you is not extreme.

There’s one more piece to this. The One Reason states the net happiness she creates for you consistently is extreme.

This means she doesn’t make you net happy sometimes, but all the time, consistently.

For example, sometimes you can have a woman in your life who makes you really, really happy when she’s physically with you but when she’s not with you she complains, gives you drama, or makes demands over texts, which drives you crazy. Then she shows up at your home and she’s wonderful again… until she leaves.

Not good. Move on.

This also applies to women who are great during NRE (the first few months of the relationship) but then are mediocre or even bad after the honeymoon period is over, and you just keep them around because of all the usual guy-rationalizing excuses I listed at the beginning of this article.

None of these examples are consistent net happiness. Those are temporary or inconsistent happiness, which is absolutely not a good enough reason to keep any one woman in your life when there are so many other women you could be with who would make you happy consistently (on the net).

So always remember the One Reason a woman should be with you: the net happiness she creates for you consistently is extreme.

If it isn’t, she needs to go. And she needs to go regardless of your oneitis, lazy, irrational, bullshit excuses, of which you’ll have many.

Move on from her nicely, but move on.