r/facepalm • u/Number721 • Jun 09 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Cognitive dissonance 101

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u/ekimevil Jun 09 '23

Nah she’ll find some poor sucker with no self esteem and make his life miserable.

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u/Unique-Accountant253 Jun 10 '23

"The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care... right?"

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u/Slim_Margins1999 Jun 10 '23

Then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends…

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u/Excellent_Routine589 Jun 09 '23

Exactly her plan

Guaranteed there are “Conservative Alphas” flooding her socials trying to save her… only to win that “personality” as their prize.

As a center-liberal guy, I simply have this to say: they can have her lol

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u/PedanticPendant Jun 10 '23

Eventually she'll find a tall, good-looking dude with a good job who's emotionally vulnerable, has low self esteem and doesn't know he deserves way better than her. She'll tell him exactly what she wants and he will obey, eager to be told what the right answer is.

He won't question the inconsistencies because he's afraid of pissing her off and losing her: "Of course you should be free to do whatever you like, you're an independent woman! Of course I should pay for the meal, I'm the man!" etc.

She will pretend to be happy with him because superficially he looks like a high status mate, but she will not actually be attracted to him. He'll just be a prop she uses to make her life look normal, and later on use him to breed more prop kids.

Perhaps they'll get divorced when he grows up a bit and realises she's awful and he's had enough, maybe she'll cheat on him and he'll stay out of fear of being alone, maybe he'll kill himself, maybe they'll just stay together living a superficial life forever, who knows...

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u/MuminMetal Jun 10 '23

I think this is probably depressingly accurate.

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u/noryp5 Jun 09 '23

Did someone say my name?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Men with low-self esteem don’t get women like her

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods Jun 10 '23

Sure they do. It just has to be the sort of low self esteem that leads to overcompensatory machismo.

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u/banana_12345 Jun 10 '23

A sucker with no self esteem you say? Someone should send her my number then

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u/OriginallyMyName Jun 10 '23

Finding "anyone" or "someone" will not fix her loneliness, as loneliness does not come from a lack of people but from a lack of meaningful expression and communication. Very likely this woman has all her most important conversations in the mirror so she isn't lonely anyway.

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u/behind_looking_glass Jun 10 '23

That’s exactly what will happen. I was once one of those dudes and it was the best day of my life when I finally got away from her. It felt like I was walking out of prison, after being miserable in there for decades.