/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10544056]

Did /lit/ ever break up with a gf because she could not appreciate literature? Not liking something because it is 'too dark' or 'depressing' is the mark of an infantile mind, and definite proof there is no future together.

>t. dumped gf because she didn't understand The Idiot

[Anonymous No.10544067]

Stop being retarded.

[Anonymous No.10544073]

Girlfriends aren't supposed to be your friends.

[Anonymous No.10544075]

No girl has ever liked me
I don't like me either

[Anonymous No.10544080]

>>10544056
>Dumped gf over disagreement on shit author
Good job retard

[Anonymous No.10544086]

>>10544056
>dumped gf because she didn't understand The Idiot

She understands now

[Anonymous No.10544091]

>>10544056
you are The Idiot

[Anonymous No.10544118]

never dumped anyone for not knowing about literature, but have been dumped for being an asshole about her not knowing about literature and shitting on her shit taste

[Anonymous No.10544124]

Did she dislike literature in general or only "depressing" stuff? Some people can be intensely affected by heavy lit/movies/etc.. It can be a marker of empathy. It doesn't necessarily imply a general lack of sophistication. There's plenty of great literature that's deep but not dark.

[Anonymous No.10544131]

I dumped a guy I was dating (not quite at the bf level) because he said his favourite book was the novelisation of Assassin's Creed.

[Anonymous No.10544148]

>>10544056
I guess that makes you
>The Idiot

[Anonymous No.10544153]

>>10544056
Girlfriend should approve of and support your interests, but not necessarily understand them. It is nice when you can discuss things with her, but, as far as my experience goes, women who can grasp complex/abstract/dark concepts also tend to be fucked in the head to some extent. A slightly dumb one is usually better suited for long lasting relationship.

[Anonymous No.10544174]

>>10544131
>his favourite book was the novelisation of Assassin's Creed.
whew

[Anonymous No.10544178]

I was once dumped by a /lit/ poseur for calling him on his bullshit when quizzed on books like Crime and Punishment (apparently his favourite) and The Iliad ("like, the best poem ever written"). He didn't like that I'd actually read them and pointed out that he clearly hadn't.

[Anonymous No.10544186]

>>10544174
I've, for the sake of actually having friends, put up with the fact that all my friends like YA and Harry Potter, but what I'd put up with in a friend I can't tolerate in an intimate partner. Besides, Assassin's Creed books?

[Anonymous No.10544202]

>>10544186
Women just don't understand.

[Anonymous No.10544224]

>>10544202
>Women just don't understand.
Or I have taste. His favourite game was Assassin's Creed 3. Not just in the series, but of all time.

[Anonymous No.10544232]

Post books full of made up stories about things that never happened

[Anonymous No.10544235]

>broke up
i don't think you could really classify our interactions with ontilogicool as dating

[Anonymous No.10544240]

>>10544131
>>10544186
Hahahaha, same thing happened to me except his favorite book was the Bioshock novelizations

>>10544153
:(

[Anonymous No.10544246]

>>10544153
Define fucked up in the head. Because I don't think I am, but much like madness, I wouldn't, would I?

[Anonymous No.10544248]

>>10544240
lol git gud anonette

>>10544240
>>10544186
they both sound like turds ladies. you're better off. hope you didn't wiggle their dingdongs too many times.

[Anonymous No.10544255]

>>10544056
Yeah. Dumped a cute asian girl for not knowing who Chekhov was.

[Anonymous No.10544257]

>>10544248
>they both sound like turds ladies. you're better off. hope you didn't wiggle their dingdongs too many times.
Why would I sleep with someone I'd only been on a handfull of dates with?

[Anonymous No.10544273]

>>10544257
My thoughts exactly, I wait until I can be reasonably sure I've screened stuff like that out

[Anonymous No.10544281]

I got dumped for liking books, but the guy was tipping seriously into /pol/ by the time we did break up. Apparently women shouldn't read or something, we should be kitchen slaves or breeders. The guy became pretty unhinged towards the end.

[Anonymous No.10544294]

>>10544257
I didn't mean to suggest anything, just that's been my experience: by date 3, things are usually happening between me and the girls I've dated. Actually the most ostentatiously literary girl I've ever been with invited me to stay over on our first date. That didn't last; she was school-focused and weirdly immature. Even more than me.

[Anonymous No.10544299]

>>10544075
i like you

[Anonymous No.10544300]

>>10544294
This was 4 dates in, we'd made out but that was it. I like to vet potential bfs quite well before I have sex with them.

[Anonymous No.10544301]

>>10544299
Well I don't like you

[Anonymous No.10544308]

>>10544301
my nigga ice cold!

[Anonymous No.10544333]

>>10544056
>dumped my gf because she didn’t agree with my interpretation of a complex work
sad

[Anonymous No.10544334]

>>10544294
Oh I'm not offended. I'm bioshock anonette and I had only been on a couple dates him, so in my case at least he wasn't really an "almost bf." I do feel like I need to establish a degree of trust before sleeping with anyone though. Sometimes that comes quickly but if it doesn't I'll feel awful if I try to force myself to rush into it.

[Anonymous No.10544339]

>>10544301
Imposter! What a random medium, run with it I guess I was to slow

[Anonymous No.10544350]

>>10544339
you're incoherent.

[Anonymous No.10544361]

The amount of girls on this board still shocks me
Do girls even shitpost?

[Anonymous No.10544365]

>>10544308
i like you anon. we out here befriending the friendless dig.

[Anonymous No.10544371]

>>10544361
Can women shitpost as well as men?

[Anonymous No.10544379]

>>10544371
No, they just turn into Amy Schumer.
>muh vagina lol amirite

[Anonymous No.10544392]

>>10544371
No. The male brain has been honed by millions of years of evolution into a well-oiled shitposting machine

[Anonymous No.10544393]

>>10544392
Shitposting is a new phenomenon roastie whore, you're thinking of wit.

[Anonymous No.10544397]

>>10544393
;)

[Anonymous No.10544399]

>>10544056
I once got irrationally frustrated at my ex for not being able to have a decent discussion about her favorite book: 'Notes from the underground'.

I don't have anyone, outside of /lit/, to talk about literature.

>>10544178
I didn't think that people actually pretended to have an understanding of books they haven't read, outside of the internet.

[Anonymous No.10544403]

>>10544399
>I didn't think that people actually pretended to have an understanding of books they haven't read, outside of the internet.
This guy was a truely pretentious man. I regret the five months I wasted on him,

[Anonymous No.10544405]

>>10544246
I mean extreme mood swings, anxiety, various insecurities. And that is not the usual femine emotional instability. Those things torture her so much, that coexistence becomes unbearable. Also, they tend to be disgusted with family life and being a housewife. I can relate to this, since greater intellect spawns greater urges. But how am I supposed to live with a woman which does not want to settle down at least in some distant future.

[Anonymous No.10544406]

>>10544350
Random anon pretended to be my anon (me)

[Anonymous No.10544408]

>>10544405
I don't have moodswings, anxiety (except for hypochondria) or insecurities. Nor am I a tortured soul, just because of reading literature and philosophy. But You're right, I don't want to be a housewife. I want a 50/50 relationship (which my parents had, and they're the only ones of their friends still happily together). I do want children.

[Anonymous No.10544409]

>>10544406
who cares

[Anonymous No.10544411]

>>10544403
So, did you meet him though this site? Relationships starting from 4chan is something I also didn't think happened.

[Anonymous No.10544414]

>>10544409
I'll make you care, take this (you) and I'll take you're precious time

[Anonymous No.10544415]

>>10544411
No, I met him at university. I'm not stupid, why would I meet a random person from a site known to dislike women and talk about raping and murdering them regularly, in real life?

[Anonymous No.10544418]

>>10544073
I like this answer and I've told myself this a number of times now when I perceive what at first strikes me as shortcomings. My gf does not enjoy reading solo, but she is happy for me to read to her. On any other vaguely intellectual pursuits I'm into that she's not, I remind myself that I can make friends for those to satisfy those aspects of my personality.

[Anonymous No.10544425]

>>10544415
You calling him 'a /lit/ poseur' confused me

[Anonymous No.10544437]

If the girl is under 22, her brain is nowhere near developed and still has tons of neuroplasticity.

If you're intelligent--a lot more intelligent than she is--have good sense of psychology, there are genuine strong emotions involved, you can basically condition a girl.

She is so malleable and you can plant new neural pathways everyday.

If you take a young girl, the younger the better, she is in love with you, you're manipulative enough to keep that honeymoon phase from fading too much, you can essentially program your ideal life-partner over a year or two.

It's much better to program a work in progress than hunting for the 'right one'.

[Anonymous No.10544440]

>>10544425
Apologies, didn't know how to describe it. I asked him about it, and he was shocked- so he didn't post here.

[Anonymous No.10544443]

>>10544056
No. Youre a retard bro

[Anonymous No.10544444]

>>10544437
Can't you do that with men though? Seeing as men's brains aren't developed till 23?

[Anonymous No.10544445]

>>10544056
Girls are for cooking, dancing, singing, laughing, and raising children.
Adding anything to this trinity shows how retarded you are.

[Anonymous No.10544446]

Get?

[Anonymous No.10544455]

>>10544445
I suppose sex is out of the question?

[Anonymous No.10544456]

>>10544445
This makes me sad. The kinds of men who like the same things as me (books etc.) think like this.

[Anonymous No.10544458]

>>10544437
You've never actually met a girl with some mental strength, have you? My ex gf was younger than me (by 4 years, we met when she was 16) and broke up with me specifically because I changed into something she didn't like.

[Anonymous No.10544511]

>>10544456
These kinds of men also live in another dimension with 5-node trinities, I wouldn't worry

[Anonymous No.10544521]

>>10544073
this x 1000

[Anonymous No.10544541]

>>10544153
What does it look like when a girl is fucked in the head?

[Anonymous No.10544571]

>>10544445
>Lists five things
>"Trinity"
Yes, you're someone who's opinion I'll take seriously.

[Anonymous No.10544581]

>>10544541
My photo diary desu

>>10544456
That comment expresses such an antiquated view that I can't take it seriously, this one bums me out though
>>10544073

[Anonymous No.10544919]

>>10544246
I'm a gurl btw

[Anonymous No.10545371]

>>10544456
don't worry, not all of them do

[Anonymous No.10545494]

>>10544056
Girls are supposed to be dumb, it's cute.

Expecting things like good taste from a woman is expecting your dog to play chess with you. You're approaching the subject entirely the wrong way and therefore missing out on all the joys it can bring you if you would just stop wishing for it to be something it's not.

Girls are cute and sometimes useful, sexy pets. Mastering this outlook is the foundation of successful heterosexual relationships.

[Anonymous No.10545503]

>>10544153
girls who read always want you to beat the shit out of them for some reason

[Anonymous No.10545552]

>>10545371
holy fuck why are you white knighting on an ANONYMOUS IMAGEBOARD

[Anonymous No.10545566]

>>10545503
Noooo I hate that
Still haven't recovered from the cognitive dissonance last time that happened

[Anonymous No.10545680]

Not liking someone because he doesn't have the same tastes as you is the mark of an infantile mind.

[Anonymous No.10545721]

I was dumped because she didn't love me anymore.

Since then I've been reading less and less.

[Anonymous No.10546415]

>>10544056
well i believe that dosto can be overwhelming for many people... but no dude, its just a matter of taste you cant just break up because she doesnt like the same books as you, its like videogames... one doest break up with their gf because she doesnt like videogames... matter of taste; women just simply like more novels like jane austen or emily brönte and thats ok...

[Anonymous No.10546426]

If a specific set of ideas motivates your life and informs your actions to a large extent, you should almost certainly share it with your lover.

It's not at all unreasonable for couples to split up over religious views, political temperment etc.

If one person believes in ghosts and the other doesn't, there will be problems. If one person loves to read passionately and loves to engage ideas seriously, then it will be a problem if the other doesn't.

A musician doesn't have to marry a musician. But a musician's spouse had better at least love music.

[Anonymous No.10546439]

>>10545680

At some point it stops being a matter of "taste."

If I love Tolstoy and Dickens, and my girlfriend loves Ayn Rand, it will not be long before we have problems.

[Anonymous No.10546469]

>>10544056
>implying I ever had a gf to break up with

Normies get off my /lit/ reee

[Anonymous No.10546482]

>>10544086
Underrated as fuck

[Anonymous No.10546495]

>>10544056
No. I don't want my girlfriend to be interested in books at all.

[Anonymous No.10546513]

>>10546439
Of course it isnt just a matter of tastes, we bond with the books that we like the most because we feel really alike to the characters, their lifes are a small mirror to our own lifes, but your life its really different than your gf; we feel really special when we bond with others that read the same because we feel alike and we feel less lonely; just dont stare at the differences, look at the common things... but if you really dont have anything in common maybe this was only the catalyst to the break up, maybe you just need a good reason to break up but you dont find it... isnt it?

[Anonymous No.10546546]

>>10546513
Take a little bit of my experience... i broke up with my ex not because she didnt liked crime and punishment or because she was really naive. She could understand me and that was ok, i didnt wanted two depressed and hollow beings in the same house i broke up with her because she could handle my swag (jkd) because she saw a nuisance in a trait that i found it was some kind of core value... something i hate of women its the will to change somebody and maybe im some kind of stalwart man. Welp life sucks just enjoy all the good times

[Anonymous No.10546613]

>>10544418
>she is happy for me to read to her.
You're dating an 8 year old?

[Anonymous No.10546632]

i just wanna talk to a girl detsu i see them all the time when i go outside but i never get to know them everyone here has stories but not me girls never talk to me and i have so much to talk about i read about everything i even read about pretty girls sometimes

[Anonymous No.10546813]

>>10546632
I am the same friend. You are not alone.

[Anonymous No.10546884]

>>10544075

I like you too anon :)

[Anonymous No.10547046]

>>10544408
be my waife

[Anonymous No.10547769]

>>10544056
Are there any girls actually into literature? What do the normal ones think of it as a hobby?

[Anonymous No.10547925]

>>10544056
>Never have deep, meaningful relationships because am an Asperger

>See others throw away relations for stupid fucking reasons

[Anonymous No.10549156]

>>10544361
Ew, no! And they don't burp either!

[Anonymous No.10549170]

>>10544281
Did you date this person for a long period of time? Werent there signs of what was to come?

[Anonymous No.10549185]

>>10544056
>>10544067
fpbp
You're an elitist moron. Not liking depressing shit doesn't mean you can't understand it. It means you don't want to read depressing shit, you fucking spastic.

[Anonymous No.10549187]

>>10545552
>everything related to women on the internet is whiteknighting
>everything is fascism
>everyone is a nazi
>everyone is racist
>everyone who discusses / makes points relating to society that delve deeper than superficial dismissals or go against the party line are SJWs
this is you

[Anonymous No.10549193]

>>10546546
yeah, keep telling yourself that, buddy.

[Anonymous No.10549206]

>>10544056
Did you at least drop the mike before you walked out?

[Anonymous No.10549212]

I dont understand all of you saying that you should get in a relationship where the person doesnt share your main interest, or even worse that theyre dumb

I have tried so many times and it always leads to me feeling guilty for essentially leading on a girl when I should have left as soon as I saw her just staring at me blankly while I explained who Wittgenstein was or how moving Prufrock could be

How can you not want more?

[Anonymous No.10549223]

>>10549187
everything is fascism read Deleuze and Adorno you fucking nig

[Anonymous No.10549232]

Is it rude to talk to a girl in a book shop or anywhere outside if they are already reading a book

[Anonymous No.10549236]

>>10544086
Top Kek

[Anonymous No.10549237]

>>10544073
I don't understand this mindset. If you're going to live with someone, share your entire life with her, why not have her be your best friend? Are you scraping the bottom of the barrel or is your top priority to pick the prettiest girl you can afford out of peer pressure?

I'm not going to date retards or strangers so I don't think I would ever get to the stage where I would dump someone for preferring YA shit since I'd have entered the relationship knowing that and accepting it.

I would never date someone OP described although I have many friends like that. I know it's petty and shallow and hopefully I will grow out of that mindset but for now it's working for me and I'm married to a girl who's not only my best friend but also shares all of my hobbies and is well-versed in literature, arguably better than me.

[Anonymous No.10549238]

>>10549237
He's heterosexual. They think you're supposed to hate your spouse.

[Anonymous No.10549252]

>>10546613
>he doesn't read to his gf and bros

[Anonymous No.10549253]

>>10549232
are you handsome? if yes then no, if no then you have bigger questions to be asking than this

[Anonymous No.10549257]

>>10549253
>if no then you have bigger questions to be asking than this

Pray tell

[Anonymous No.10549292]

>>10544056
i never even had a gf and at this point i,'m not sure trivial stuff like that would matter much

[Anonymous No.10549302]

>>10549253
If I ask a girl friend of mine about my looks and she says I have nothing to worry about

Do I have something to worry about

[Anonymous No.10549322]

>>10549212
>>10549237
I'm surprised that this is the minority view. I don't know how you could be happy in a relationship with someone you couldn't respect intellectually

[Anonymous No.10549330]

>>10549302
Yes, mental retardation. She was telling you that you're attractive in a way that doesn't imply interest on her part. Unless you have reason to believe she'd lie then take her at her word

[Anonymous No.10549343]

>>10549330
Shes just a very agreeable person, like a lot of girls, so I wonder if she would never be able to say, yes youre ugly

[Anonymous No.10549372]

>>10549322
>taking relationship advice on /lit/ seriously
anon...

[Anonymous No.10549406]

>>10544056
No, I never had a girl to break up with in the first place

[Anonymous No.10549410]

dont judge a fish by its flying ability

[Anonymous No.10549412]

>>10549343
Straight up telling your mates that they look like gypsies with cholera is more of a guy thing. Females will compliment everyone into oblivion.

[Anonymous No.10549452]

>>10549412
Well thats what Im afraid of

Id like to think the previous poster was a girl and was correct

[Anonymous No.10549473]

>>10544056
To do that first I needed to have a girlfriend.

> tfw chose the option to be celibate

[Anonymous No.10550358]

>>10545552
because on here i can't get downvoted for it ;)

[Anonymous No.10550388]

>>10544153
All girls are fucked up in the head, this is why you are single anon, you think you will find someone who isn't but that's impossible

[Anonymous No.10550414]

>>10544235
>Uses the word ontological
>is surprised that someone breaks up with him

If you’re gonna study philosophy study it for the right reasons. To live better. Plato and Montaigne are the best, and Montaigne has a lot to say about women.

[Anonymous No.10550456]

>>10544075
I know that feel bro

[Anonymous No.10550518]

>>10549237
Because only soyboy relate to women enough to be their friend.

[Anonymous No.10550548]

>>10544056

I had many arguments with one of my ex's because she didn't read that much. She was one of those precocious teenagers with no friends who found a love of literature only for it to die when she reached the start of adulthood (she was 22). I'd be lying if I said I wasn't attracted to her because of that and I guess I got bitter about it after a while. It's a shame because she was lovely and took a lot of interest in things I liked. I don't think she really appreciated them but I loved that she tried. I should have done the same for her.

Next girlfriend I was super nice to and didn't bother saying anything negative in terms of taste (books or otherwise). If anything, I tried really hard to get into stuff she liked which was enjoyable in a way but ultimately unfulfilling.

Now I'm content being alone forever.

[Anonymous No.10550549]

>>10550518
ok, enjoy being miserable for the rest of your life. at least you'll get to kek about it with the boys, right?

[Anonymous No.10550556]

>>10550549
What a melodramatic response, I could practically hear the voice crack through my monitor

[Anonymous No.10550558]

>>10550549
I wonder who's behind this post.

[Anonymous No.10550559]

>>10549156

I am a male and I do my best not to burp, fart or do anything disgusting like that.

[Anonymous No.10550565]

>>10550518
But I'm a chad and I have lots of women friends
Am I just a soyboy in disguise?

[Anonymous No.10550566]

>>10544232
Y-you first

[Anonymous No.10550574]

>>10544415

>and talk about raping and murdering them regularly,

what

[Anonymous No.10550576]

>>10550556
>>10550558

Boys >>>/pol/ is that way.

[Anonymous No.10550578]

>>10550565
If they're not just acquaintances you keep around because you might fuck them or girls they know then yes

[Anonymous No.10550581]

>>10550556
>>10550558
not someone who hates their SO, at least

[Anonymous No.10550587]

>>10550578
Damn
My life is a lie

[Anonymous No.10550588]

>>10550576
>Hemingway tier opinions on women is now pol

[Anonymous No.10550601]

>>10550581
>Not being friends with them means you hate them
You can have mutual respect and appreciation without being friends.

[Anonymous No.10550604]

>>10544056
> make art
> consistently ask girlfriend how it makes her feel
> her answer is usually that she doesn't know

Get used to it pal

[Anonymous No.10550620]

>>10550601
Not... really?
You're describing a professional relationship. How exactly does a person take that into a functioning, healthy intimate relationship?

[Anonymous No.10550639]

>>10550620
Very easily

[Anonymous No.10550644]

>>10550639
Alright explain it then. Unless both of you are aromantic, someone is getting the shit end of the stick.

[Anonymous No.10550659]

>>10550639
>>10550644
You know what? Nevermind about the aromantics, because that's irrelevant too.

Just explain, period.

[Anonymous No.10550675]

i don't know about girls but everyone here makes them seem stupid and dumb im worried now i thought itd be fun

[Anonymous No.10550708]

>>10550659
Your family is your job. Raising and caring for your children is the first job man has ever known. Confusing it with romanticism is what has so thoroughly dismantled the family structure in the West. Your spouse is your partner, not your friend.

[Anonymous No.10550723]

>>10550708

>Your family is your job. Raising and caring for your children is the first job man has ever known.

[Anonymous No.10550739]

>>10550708
You're an idiot. Every job is easier if the people are friends. I bet you think "emotions are useless" you fucking fedora

[Anonymous No.10550749]

>>10550739
>I bet you think "emotions are useless" you fucking fedora
I'm on a literature board so clearly not. Sorry my iconoclasm has so deeply unsettled you.

[Anonymous No.10550824]

>>10550723
He's right you know.

[Anonymous No.10550827]

>>10550708
Actually prostitution is the worlds oldest profession

[Anonymous No.10550856]

>>10544080
>he cant get a new gf in 5 minutes

[Anonymous No.10550978]

>>10549473
>Chose

No, I didn't choose and neither did you.

[Anonymous No.10551234]

>>10550978

[Anonymous No.10551327]

>>10550675

That's because your average /lit/ poster is 19 and hangs around with 19 year old girls. They're really not that bad.

[Anonymous No.10551335]

>>10544056

lel try hard faget

[Anonymous No.10551366]

>>10546632
Just get a chubby minger mate, if you stare at her enough you'll get used to it.

[Anonymous No.10551488]

>>10551327
They don't get much better when they get older

[Anonymous No.10551500]

>>10551366

>if you stare at her enough you'll get used to it.

can confirm. be prepared for a shitload of emotional baggage though

[Anonymous No.10551530]

>>10550565
>browses this board
>thinks he's chad

[Anonymous No.10551533]

>>10551327
but young girls are so prettyy and i like them a lot ohhhhh

[Anonymous No.10551585]

>>10551366

>tfw as your confidence has eroded over time you've become less and less attracted to objectively pretty girls and more and more attracted to thick girls, girls with busted faces, girls with extremely outre style, and transexuals

[Anonymous No.10551591]

>>10551585
Get the fuck out of my head

[Anonymous No.10551618]

>>10544086
Witty.

[Anonymous No.10551789]

>>10546632
Try talking to girls.

[Anonymous No.10551817]

>>10549237
>t. has never had a sincere male friendship

[Anonymous No.10551893]

>>10544056
At bookstore with gf today, she is not very /lit/ but she has decent taste when she does read and I figure the more time I spend with her the better it gets. she’s browsing the poetry section and picks up rupi Kari off of a clearance table. I flipped shit on her like an autist and shamed her to death in that store for even considering it. She says something like “I see people talking about it all the time and it’s on sale” and I say “those people are fucking retarded and it’s on sale because it’s garbage.” She put it down embarrassed and sad, but I pretty much had to discourage the behavior right? makes me worried about what unsuspecting youths like her are exposed to. I’m praying she is more self conscious about her literature taste now and that this will lead her to making better choices or asking me for recommendations in the future.

[Anonymous No.10551896]

>>10551893
People will take this bait

[Anonymous No.10551931]

>>10551896
bait?

>>10551893
you weren't hard enough on her

[Anonymous No.10551939]

>>10550587
if they are your friends’ gf’s, your ex’s friends, FWB, or women you use for their friends’ pussies then its fine. if not you’re kind of a faggot. idk how you could relate with or enjoy women you aren’t intimate with they’re absolutely retarded even when they have high iq

[Anonymous No.10551961]

>>10544056
I think anything that goes beyond just reading the book and living through the feels is a male thing.

[Anonymous No.10551977]

>>10544056
My gf doesn't read but it's not an issue because she's cute and fun and there are thousands of other topics we can talk about

[Anonymous No.10551988]

>>10551977
that's the spirit

[Anonymous No.10552189]

>>10551893

You should have let her pick it up and read it and then done an impromptu seminar comparing it to Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop, showing her how it's empty.

[Anonymous No.10552223]

>>10551977
>there are thousands of other topics to talk about
what do you guys talk about?
im genuinely curious since i would know what to talk about in this situation.

[Anonymous No.10552230]

>>10551591

Are you also close to visiting prostitutes? I have a bookmarks folder full of them that are nearby and in my budget. All I have to do is read one more book by Vollmann and it's probably done.

[Anonymous No.10552231]

>>10552223
i would not know**

[Anonymous No.10552256]

>>10552223
Anytime I actually talk to a girl it turns into me telling them things. I feel like they have no passions or interests, and I'm not trying to women bash, I hate it. Even the literature or history majors I've met didn't really care about it, really.

[Anonymous No.10552279]

>>10552256

You have to question people into their actual interests, not just the face they try to maintain. Ask less about what they're doing with their life and what they like to do, typical identity cues, and try and get at what they've been watching, reading, doing, thinking about lately.

[Anonymous No.10552289]

>>10544073
If you want a healthy long-term relationship your girlfriend should be one of your best friends. If you're not friends with your girlfriend you're better off just remaining single and fucking random girls.

[Anonymous No.10552295]

>>10552289
There are many different types of healthy relationships

[Anonymous No.10552298]

>>10552295
Not really. If you can't be friends with your own girlfriend the clash of values will quickly destroy the relationship.

[Anonymous No.10552306]

>>10544073
>mfw last 4 gfs have been gorgeous and also good friends of mine with whom i shared many interests and considered relatively intellectually equal

>>10547769
>are there any...

why would you even need to ask such a question? yes. of course. women are people.

[Anonymous No.10552323]

>>10550414
>thinking and studying isn't part of living

[Anonymous No.10552382]

>>10552298
Being friends with someone doesn't mean you have to share all your interests. Different friends will like different things. You should tailor what you say to each person so your interactions are more fulfilling for each of you. Obviously this applies to your girlfriend/wife too.

[Anonymous No.10552435]

>>10551817
right but imagine your best, most sincere male friendship, but you also got sex out of it

[Anonymous No.10552440]

My current GF hasn't read anything longer than a tweet in 5 years

[Anonymous No.10553027]

>>10552306
>why would you even need to ask such a question? yes. of course. women are people
oh im sorry i just dont know i never talk to them but i dont think there are any girls my age actually into greece and dante i literally cant imagine