Thurdsay thoughts:

After listening to that podcast I posted earlier, I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘real men’ & have concluded that I don’t think I’ve ever dated any.

Maybe this is why I’ve never married.

Deep down I know accepting weak men brings about unhappiness.
Let’s take the example of the cowboy I dated last year that sorta broke my heart. Closest to a man that I’ve ever dated. Had a beautiful ranch he built himself, successful career, physical embodiment of male perfection, smart, competent. I’ll stop therehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙃" title="Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht">

So why wasn’t he a man?
Not that I’m any prize but I am not an idiot, take care of myself and do my best to make those around me happy.

He liked me. A lot. But not quite enough to let go of his tumultuous relationship with his ex. Who had already left him twice and gotten back together.
He was the guy I had always dreamed about finding. So when he left me to go back to her, I was naturally devastated.

Or so I thought at the time...

Reflecting once I got over it, I realized he really wasn’t the man I need & want.
Does a real man stay attached to a high drama situation & pine over an ex when they aren’t married and don’t have kids? No. That’s insecurity.

He left me & a promising relationship w/ insane chemistry to go back to that.

Confidence is my one ‘must have’. He didn’t have it.
Real men have confidence in everything about themselves.

They KNOW they can protect.
They KNOW they can provide.
They KNOW they can succeed.
They KNOW they can keep a woman.
They KNOW they will be great fathers.
They KNOW they are in control.
There are very few males that are GREAT men anymore.

Great men are true warriors & exemplary leaders. They have unwavering confidence and nothing can stop them.

They make women feel safe enough to be women, not hybrids.
When you come to this realization and accept this truth, it makes settling very hard. I’ll likely end up alone because of it. I see what men should be but I don’t see many of them. I know some exist, but real men are the smallest minority in the world. They’re almost extinct.
Most good men just aren’t willing to do what it takes to be great.

It’s basically taking the weight of the world on to your shoulders. It’s gotta be tough. But great men leave a legacy. They’re remembered through generations and inspire their sons to continue in their footsteps.
Life got too easy and men got too soft.

Men getting soft forced women to harden.

Now we lived in a perpetually unhappy society that’s strayed too far from natural order. I’m sad for everyone.

We all lost when complacency & apathy became normalized.
I don’t pretend to have the answers of how we fix this. I guess the inevitable impending hardship will be the only way. History repeats itself and I just happened to be born during a lost generation.
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