#52: Unplugging from the Matrix (Part 2)
Remember…all I’m being offered is the truth. Nothing more.
A little while later, I stumbled across the column of a man who went by the nickname of “Doc Love.” Real name Thomas Hodges, he spent his life in relationships getting his heart broken and hearing every female excuse in the world in his youth and embarked on a near 30-year study of women to find out what REALLY turned them on and kept them with one man. The result of his research is comprised as a paperback book called “The System” (not to be confused with Roy Valentine’s book). Doc’s pitch is that his book is considerably cheaper than what you spend on dinner dates that go nowhere and what guys pay in divorce court. Marketing ploy, and yet so true at the same time.
If you didn’t want to buy the book, there was already plenty of good advice in his online column. I started to read a lot of his scenarios and I was stunned. Some of the scenarios he chided guys about so heavily resembled my past blunders that I started to wonder if he was talking to me. From the flaking to the phone games, it was all there.
As I continued to read article after article, something was starting to click with me. I didn’t feel like the guy was feeding men techniques and marketing….it felt like he pointing out common sense stuff that I should have SEEN to begin with. It was like I was trying to jump off a bridge the whole time and he came along and yelled “YOU’LL DIE, STUPID.”
I could have disregard all of the above…”that guy is crazy after all, women aren’t like that,” I could tell myself. I would go on believing what I had always believed and “eventually” luck up on some ass. Even “nice guys” get laid…once in a while.
Or I could believe what I saw with my eyes and order the book and possibly read about radical new ideas that the public didn’t want to accept about the dating game. The path would not be easy.
The choice was before me.