[Alamo]

[ QUOTE ]
I'd like to ask the guys that have gotten involved in the PUA community: did you do so because you felt inadequate in your previous social interactions?

[/ QUOTE ]

Yes. I had this growing feeling that I was doing something wrong with women.
I was 30/31 at the time and had had some success, but always managed to lose the girls in a matter of weeks.
So I started searching the internet, I found the PUA community.

I started reading and thought "no way!". Then I though "meh, got nothing to lose really". Lo and behold, after a couple of weeks women started to really really react in a very different way to me, for the better.

After that I really got hooked, and during 3 years I read books about genetics, psychology, and all kinds of related stuff, combining this with using the mASF messageboard.

I was able to confront myself with some nasty stuff from my past, and basically fought a fight I was always running away from (I won ldo), thanks to the whole PUA community who put me on the right track.

I am married now, to exactly the woman I imagined would be my wife. In my eyes she is hot, intelligent and funny, and that is all that really matters.

I apply PUA stuff quite regularly in my relationship, also am open about this part of myself to her, something I would have never done pre-PUA, afraid I would be judged/left/shot.

She does not like it, buy she also seems to think I am a pretty decent guy.

The concepts of self-improvement are by no means "wrong" to me. But I am the first one to admit that this stuff can be used to do very nasty things to unsuspecting women, and I am firmly against that. That is no PUA, that is hating women, and that is just damned ugly. And wrong.