I reckon I've told two to three close friends my full involvement into this little hobby of ours. I am more than open in tell people I'm involved in a community which focuses on self improvement and personal development to acheive the things we want in life and become the kind people we want to be. Which I know is the reason I'm here. Also on the other hand there are people I simply admit to just being a complete man whore. It just depends on who they are. Not for a second would I be ashamed of who I am or the things I do. As long as you can be honest, present your best self to the world without deciet then your living a good life in my books.

i told the missis at the begining of our relationship she even reads some posts, its not a total disaster but when she see's me taking the piss out of a girl she knows the crack and gets all mardy

I was thinking about this after reading your challenging post the other day (Let's get naked).

I've told a couple of people little bits about forum or going out basically to talk to girlies. I don't see so much of my old friends but I'll tell them when it comes up. The ones that have been down here in Manchester I've mentioned it to but they didn't ask me any more about it. The guy I told had heard about "that stuff".

I am looking forward to what the girls say about it. I'm sure those will be the more interesting conversations. I'm sure the boys will give me a good slagging...wouldn't expect anything less...And I told my brother; mainly because he seems to be in a world of limiting beliefs about all sort of stuff and wanted to show him some possibilities.

No one at work however. Wouldn't tell the general populus there.

At first I treated this kind of like an embarassing problem, like wetting the bed or something. I thought I would tell people how I cured it once I had but now I'll just tell them when it comes up.

I tell people who will understand.

Its not a simple thing, this community means many different things.

In a way its like having access to hundreds of good mates you trust and can bounce your problems off any time of the day, be it girls, work - in fact life in general.

I really value this forum, but PUA's - I dont think many of us are.

Guys wanting to improve themselves, have fun and pick up chicks along the way - now thats what im talking about.

I've told a couple of lads. Not particularly close friends but sound guys who I knew would be cool about it. They both seemed like they needed a point in the right direction, so I gave it to them. Needless to say neither of them stuck it out.

Sorry to threadjack this post but whenever I read 'The closet' it reminds me of this video featuring Zoltan
YouTube - R. Kelly - Trapped In The Closet Part 9

Nobody close to me knows about this forum. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't understand and I have no reason to share it with them. It's a world they would not care about anyway. Plus I have a mrs and kid.

I openly share my opinions on evolution, social theory and the like though. I am completely open witbh my beliefs and opinions.

I've told no-one. I drop the odd hint to one or two people who would benefit from knowing (the guys that still take a girl out to dinner on a 1st date), but any statement around the psychology of what they are doing and how it is wrong, tends to be lost on them as they are stuck in the "society says" mode.

One guy who i used to work with noticed a comment on one of my facebook pages and sent me a mail saying "PUA?", which i thought was quite funny. Still trying to get him out on a night out in Manchester as i think as far has he's gone is read the game, and then, not cast it aside as such, but is unwilling to take the next step.

Retro

This is an awesome thread. Really interesting.

Back when all I knew of the community was the scripted, structured, manipulative stuff only a select group of people knew of my interest in it. My ex, my sister, three friends and two colleagues. Basically, people I trusted. I thought it was all a bit weird, though exciting, and was only reading about it except for using Style's cologne opener three times.

Once I discovered all the natural stuff I became comfortable with it all, started to get more actively involved and now that I was happy to have it in my life I was happy to tell people about it.


All my family, friends and girls know about my involvement in this.

Only a handfull of my colleagues, the ones I actually enjoy the company of, know about it. The rest just know I do pretty well with girls.

People I know who I haven't discussed it with are those with whom the subject has not come up, i.e. people I don't see hardly at all. If it did come up, I would be open about it.

I tend to distance myself from the term PUA and the whole scripted and structured side to this, just as I do here.


So far no one has taken the piss or used their knowledge as a weapon against me. If someone did try to, I would tear their arguments to shit.


Peace,

kowalski

I'm the same as Retro to be honest. There's only my friend Will, the lad who introduced me to "The Game" who knows I've read it but doesn't know about how deeply involved I am. The only person who knows that is my cousin, a big DeAngelo fan. I had planned to get him involved with the forum but before I had a chance, he was introducing me to "this cool thing" he found.

I'd probably only tell people who I know would get something of value from it. Most of my closest friends would do the typical thing - say it's interesting and they can believe it 'works', but ultimately end up taking the piss and taking no action. I plan to introduce a friend of 10 years to it when I get to spend some proper time with him (he's currently studying in Kent of all places). He will definitely benefit, and is the type of guy who would throw himself into it wholeheartedly.