I'm here because several years ago, I read Strauss' The Game just after breaking up with a younger woman after four years. I wouldn't say I necessarily absorbed the techniques described, but it gave an enormous boost in terms of possibilities that served to give me the time of my life when it came to the opposite sex. I dated a lot of women over the next couple of years, and discovered that some things Strauss had described were true (such as the discovery women frequently don't necessarily have an issue with you being non-exclusive if you tell them upfront at the start). It culminated with a mind-blowing threeway in my flat with two bisexual girlfriends.
Not long after, I met a beautiful girl. We got married, enjoyed a few years of bitter arguments and, to cut a long story short, we're now looking at getting separated. She has a world of baggage on her shoulders, and I came to realize she'll never be rid of it.
But now I'm 45 years old, and even though I like to think I look and act younger than that - or try to, anyway - I wonder where being at this stage of my life leaves me in terms of opportunities. I do know that I'm not going to go jumping into another LTR anytime soon: I want to find if I can play the field some more. But a lot of the girls are younger than they used to be, and I'm older than I used to be. So I'm here as a kind of experiment to see if I can rebuild the frequently incredible single life I had just prior to my marriage.