Telling your parents your MGTOW

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Tell them nothing.

Love is just alimony waiting to happen. Visit mgtow.com.

[foghornleghornParticipant 3449]

The short answer you don’t. If they ask you why you are not dating or want to set you up – just tell them that you are not interested in being tied down in life. Leave it at that.

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

foghornleghorn wrote:

If they ask you why you are not dating or want to set you up – just tell them that you are not interested in being tied down in life. Leave it at that.

Or, if they insist on trying to set you up, agree to go along with it and make sure it’s the worst “date” ever for the girl. Nothing actually illegal, but make damn sure you come off as the opposite of “husband material”. Like take her to a strip club or something. Word will get around and as soon as it gets back to your parents you won’t have to deal with this s~~~ from your parents any more.

[GrumpyParticipant]

My parents are dead, so I owe them no explanation.
For my remaining family, they have pretty much come to the conclusion finally, that I am not a very social animal.
Anyone’s expectations of what they think or believe I am is just that, it is theirs not mine.
I owe explanations to no one.
A cursory review of my life so far should be more than enough data to conclude that I am what I am, a product of both my environment and nurturing.
Even my daughter understands that I prefer my solitude with brief interactions with others as required.

The irony/hypocrisy I find is that everyone else can scream, rant, and rave about being “born this way”, demand their freedoms and rights, and force others to accept/abide that as truth. Yet, deny my quiet assertion to living the way I so choose.

There was a time in my life when I gave a fuck. Now you have to pay ME for it

[Mysterious ManParticipant 337]

Most responses here will tell you to simply forego telling them anything, but this may be ultimately more damaging in other cultures.

Asian and Indian culture will chastise you for not procreating, cut you off from the family, or even worse, attempt to force you into an arranged marriage.

Depending on the family, I would say to be honest about it and brace for the fallout. However, you may be privy to simply ignoring them if they ask.

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." -Nikola Tesla

[MeisterParticipant 2093]

Use logic:

Mum is a woman.
Dad is a man who married that woman.

I ghosted my family. – Zero contact.

Monk

[Y_Participant 4591]

Your life is your own so you don’t owe anyone an explanation – I agree with Hitman.

However you may have a close bond with your parents that would make this approach difficult. In my view you have two choices. Tell them nothing or tell them a version of the truth that they can accept (as much as you can). You don’t have to talk about MGTOW.

Don’t lie outright to your parents – you don’t want to lose your relationship with them if you have a good relationship. In life some things should not be lost if you value it. This is one of them.

[CombatRollParticipant 2594]

Ask your dad “Would you do it again” in front of your mom and let him answer for you.

My dad told me no less than 3,000 times – “Son, don’t ever get married… don’t to it”. The problem was he never told me WHY. He didn’t tell my dumbass about the BS marriage entails. How you are nothing but a gov’t mule, strapped with the load of taking care of an ungrateful wife and in most cases spoiled entitled kids.

I’m going to take another route with my son. He is in college and I am going to sit him down and explain how f~~~ed up marriage is. That he will lose freedom, money and have nothing but headaches down the road. I don’t know if this will work, but I think had my dad given me the details I may have made different decisions. He died early from cancer, but I can’t help but think that he would have talked me out of marrying. Instead my mom and sisters pressured me to walk down the isle. FML

[EsoterroristParticipant 1]

I don’t tell em s~~~ and act like I’m fried from the divorce and snort black pills. 15 years and hopefully prostibots will come into existence

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

Anonymous wrote:

I hate to say it but you should just string them along. What I mean by this is you should say that you just haven’t met the right woman yet.

It works for Leo!

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[DaveVParticipant 450]

Joey Cusack wrote:

Don’t articulate your path to your parents (they won’t get it) but rather let them see it by the successes in your life.

Hitman wrote:

you don’t owe anyone an explanation.

I think these sum up the answers to your question concisely.

I got married young because of peer pressure, and regretted it for years after. Even though I got out relatively unscathed financially, it opened my eyes to the way the legal system works in the UK (and I am discovering, the US/Canada as well)

Sadly you will have to contend not just with parents, but your peers, and especially married men with kids (who are still on the blue pill). Surprising, considering all are laden with debt via mortgages, school fees, car loans, paying for holidays and all the other costs associated with bring up lots of kids. They ALL are miserable, constantly stressed, and have to deal with the ‘modern’ woman demands. I can’t explain why, maybe these ‘men’ are suffering from something comparable to the ‘Stockholm syndrome’. I have tried to explain the risks with getting married, cohabiting, and dating single mom’s. Every time, I get angry reactions, but no logical responses to my concerns. It’s got so bad, I gave up trying, since it doesn’t change anything. They are still miserable, living in fear and debt, and I will still do my own thing and be happy and stress free. I still have options and choices, they have none.
(I have a close friend who is still married, has three kids, fourth on the way, has just lost his job, on the verge of losing his house and going into bankruptcy, zero sex life, wife nags constantly…and even he is still trying to convince me to get married again?????….)

Funnily enough, since I went MGTOW, and just focus on work, my hobbies, and generally trying to be a decent human being, I find women will gravitate toward you, rather than you have to chase them.

No man lost a woman from chasing money/their dreams/working hard. A man does lose money/his career/his happiness chasing women.

But considering that all it takes is a disgruntled woman to make a false accusation at you at work, in public, in the home, to the police…and you will lose everything you have worked for; you may end up in prison; or unable to find work because there is a false mark against you……would you take the risk???

D.G.I Don’t Get Involved !

D. G. I. Don't. Get. Involved. (Be happy, and stress not)

[MGTOW KnightParticipant 7477]

DaveV wrote:

No man lost a woman from chasing money/their dreams/working hard. A man does lose money/his career/his happiness chasing women.

This is gold.

Fuck bitches... literally and metaphorically

[foghornleghornParticipant 3449]

DaveV wrote:

No man lost a woman from chasing money/their dreams/working hard. A man does lose money/his career/his happiness chasing women.

Amen Brother.

[RASmanParticipant 1994]

Parents need some assurance they didn’t totally screw up raising you. Education, career and family with darling little grand babies is the validation of their parenting. They will “worry” about you if you don’t follow the plan, fulfill their dreams and carry on the family blood line. The “worry” is a guilt trip they hang on you. Shrug it off and live your own life.

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