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EasyE

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Alright gentlemen, I’ve been with this girl for about 7 months now and since going through Chase’s articles such as ‘Choosing the Right Qualities in a Woman’, ‘Why I Quit Dating Girls Who Club, Party, or Drink’, ‘Beware of Girls It's Too Easy to Meet!’ and a few others on screening out good quality women, I’ve had light shed on some feelings of uncertainty on my relationship. They’ve had a profound impact on me, however, I would like to get some other opinions before I jump the gun and do something stupid, or whether I can continue this relationship and eventually lead to marriage down the track.

While the post in itself is quite extensive, the main questions I'm asking myself are:

- Should I be worried about my girl’s bodycount of 4 despite the fact she’s only 20?
- Can you forgive a girl’s partying past if it was mostly between the ages of 16-18?
- Do all of the red flags added up (Past smoker + Vaping, tattoos, weed etc) seem like dealbreakers?
- Is she too easily lead or just inexperienced?



I’ll write this in order of:
  • Background
  • Bodycount and sexual history
  • How I met her
  • Personality traits
  • Red flags
  • Green flags
Background

She is 20 years old, and I am 6.5 years older. Her parents also share the same age gap, and so do her grandparents.

She comes from a wealthy upperclass family that has lived in a few countries and moved due to her father’s work. She gets to travel often and has travelled quite a lot with her family growing up (Although she has never slept with anyone overseas).

Her mother worked hard and met her father at a work conference where he picked her up. At the time she was married, but separated, and the Dad paid for the divorce and married her.

He currently still works as a big finance guy, and takes care of the family as the primary bread winner. The wife no longer has to work.

My girlfriend grew up mostly in Singapore and started partying with her school mates from ages 16-18, going out at least once a week during that time.

Her and her boyfriend at the the time both moved to Australia to study at 18. She was in college for a year and during that period she didn’t quite like the crowd that was present at college, she didn’t make too many friends and after the introductory partying events at college didn’t take part in the events and opted to keep to herself and the few friends that flew over from Singapore to Australia. This is when she said she stopped going out as much as she used to.

Currently she is studying Physiology at university and works at a cafe when she is free, although her Dad pays for her rent and gives her an allowance and he still lives in Singapore with the wife.

Bodycount and Sexual History

While she is only 20 (Turning 21 soon) her body count before I met her was 4. While it isn’t high, it isn’t low either.

First sexual experience

When she was 16 she had a boy in her class that came around to hang out at her home. They fooled around a bit, he probably fingered her and tried to get her to suck his dick. While she did for a little, she wasn’t comfortable because he was a bit too pushy and stopped it there. She later broke up with him because he was too pushy for sex and lied to her about something.

While she didn’t have sex with him, does he technically add to her body count?

First boyfriend
When she was 17 she lost her virginity to her boyfriend at the time she met in school. They broke up when they were 18 and in Australia.

Second guy
About 3 months after, she had a one night stand. She was visiting a her friend she’d known in Singapore in another state in Australia, who’s father had just passed away. She went to the funeral and later that night they were at a bar. Her friend who’s father had passed away wanted to introduce her to some guy at the bar, and pushed for her to go home with him. ‘It’s my father’s funeral today so you’ve gotta do it for me’.

She went home with him, after talking for a few hours into the night she ended up having sex with him, and then he drove her home back to her friend’s place.

She said it was fun at the time, but afterwards she really didn’t like the feeling she afterwards, mainly because she really didn’t know the guy very well. She said ONS’s aren’t for her and although her friend pushed her to do it, she chose to do it herself and the responsibility was on her, and that she ‘fucked around and found out, that it wasn’t her type of thing’

Third guy
She went on Tinder, found some finance guy. Dinner, dates etc standard stuff. Over 2-3 weeks they’d slept together and decided one night to take some weed edibles. That night he acted like a beta/soyboy and she decided she was completely turned off by him and didn’t see him again.

Fourth guy
She went back on tinder and matched with a 35 year old Lawyer who she had a relationship for a year. By then she was 19. He’d hit some financial strife during covid, losing his job and in a panic broke up with her when he couldn’t get his shit together. He kept messaging her after the breakup to get back when I started dating her, she showed me the messages and blocked him.

Is there some red flag here that he’s so much older than her?

Hinge date
A few months went by after the breakup and she made an account on Hinge. She went on a date with some guy for drinks, and ended up back at his place. Although she didn’t have sex with him or do anything sexual, she said she got tired and decided to sleep over at his place with her clothes on, despite knowing that she didn’t really like him and wasn’t going to see him again. She took a month off dating apps because she felt like she wasn’t happy with her choice and was generally better at picking guys. A month later she went back on and she matched with me.

How I met her
I met her on Hinge. She didn’t have any provocative pictures or stand out red flags, except that on her profile every prompt was ‘Buy me a beeswax candle’. Kind of almost eluding to the fact she was looking for some guy to buy her stuff, perhaps.

1st date I met her at a cafe near her place. I made a good impression and we had a good connection. It turned out she was proofing her croissants and needed to go back to her place to prepare them for baking, so she invited me back. I drove us both back to her place. I had an enormous hangover from the night before so I made her make some drinks to ease the headache. While having drinks I tell her to sit closer to me. Then I asked her if she wanted to kiss me, which she says ‘kind of’, so I pull her in and we kiss.

Afterwards we go back inside to watch a movie while she’s baking and checking in on the croissants. I pull her in for kisses and cuddle her on the couch every so often. After the movie I say we should go upstairs to her room, so she kicked me out haha.

I was pretty hung over on this date, with the worst hangover I’d ever experienced. So we spent a total of almost 6 hours hanging out with her while she nursed my hangover with food etc. She later mentioned I was ‘too smooth’ and that worried her. I thought at the time she was a bit naive to let a stranger into her home after only an hour of meeting them, although her house mate was at home at the time in case anything happened.

2nd date My housemate had his birthday so I invited her over for a BBQ dinner. After dinner my housemate scored a bag of coke and asked me if I wanted to do a line, I reluctantly did it. I offered it to my girl and she politely declined.

Afterwards we headed to a bar, which we couldn’t get into, so instead we head to the nearest club. The whole time at the club she would keep staring at me while playing with her hair. One of my friends later remarked that he noticed while talking to me she never kept her eyes off me. She still looks at me the same way to this day.

At the club the whole time she was behaving appropriately for the couple hours we were there, up until the point one of my friends scored another bag of coke. He gave it to his girlfriend, and she went with my girl to the bathroom to do some of it- with my encouragement.

We headed back to my place after the club, we did some left over coke together in my room. I kiss and undress her until she’s naked. She said we weren’t going to have sex, which I tried but she turned down each advance. She ended up sucking my dick though.

(Now, I’d like to add that I’m not really a big drug guy. It was my housemate’s bday so I joined in. Although I encouraged my girl to do it, I was really testing her to see if she’d decline each time, hoping she would.)

3rd date I came over to her place. She made dinner and we had sex after. Standard 3rd date stuff.

She did however put it off for many hours into the night. While she was naked the whole time in bed, and she said that she ‘wanted to’ (have sex with me), but she wanted to make sure that she liked me first. I reply ‘cool no problem’, and kept talking and trying to get to know her more. A few hours roll by and it’s almost morning. She asked if I was ‘clean’ and I reply yes. I make another move and we finally have sex.

Personality traits
She comes across as very innocent, shy, naive, introverted and trusting. Kind of ‘too easily lead’ as well. With the exception that, although I did meet her on Hinge, she doesn’t ever hang out in ‘easy to meet places’ looking to meet people.

She ranks very low on narcissism.

Red flags

Her mother as a role model

Over dinner once her mother mentioned she’d been to Berghain the famous club in Berlin (without the father’s presence). While this was the first time her daughters were hearing of it, her mother said her friends there could get everyone in for a party. I was a bit taken back when she said this at dinner.

She’s also taken her daughters out partying in Ibiza and various other places with the family in Europe, sometimes with the father there as well. Her mother also vapes daily and smoked cigarettes before she was pregnant, and sometimes smokes weed when visiting cities where it is legal such as Amsterdam- which is where I guess my girlfriend picked up the habit from.

However- growing up, her mother was generally not around as much as her helpers. Her helpers instilled more of the values in her than her mother did. (Which she somewhat resented her mother for) However, her mother was around more often for her younger sister. As a result, her younger sister is more outgoing and extroverted like her mother, and my girlfriend is more reserved and quiet compared to them.

Smoking and Vaping
When I met her she would smoke cigarettes on the weekend and vape on the daily. Afterwards I told her to cut out the habit and she hasn’t looked back since. Sometimes I’ll enjoy a cigarette but the deal is she doesn’t do it without me.

Smoking weed
She used to smoke weed a couple times a week before cooking dinner. She used to smoke more often in highschool with friends. She’s thrown it all out and not touched it since, and explained it’s no good while your brain has not fully matured. Growing up she’s also seen her dad smoke it once as well.

Tattoos
Her first tattoo she got when she was 16 with her friends in school. On the inside of her lip which says ‘babygirl’ She’s a little bit embarrassed about that one. She got a couple other classier looking ones on the inside of her wrists and back of her ankles which look nice.

Drug use
I’ve already mentioned that she’d done cocaine with me on the second time ever meeting me. The only other time she did it was with her first boyfriend when she was 18. She’d also tried ketamine with him once too. Other than that she doesn’t go searching for it.

Social Media
Her instagram profile was on public before she’d been in a relationship with me. She had about 1000 followers, which she’s since removed most of them. However, she hasn’t got any revealing photos of her. They’re quite modest and a of them are just cool places and things.

Looking for a man to take care of her?
In the early stages I kept in mind that her Hinge profile said that stuff about buying beeswax candles. Later on I asked her for a massage to which she said ‘I’ll do it if you buy me a candle’ to which I said I’d never do, and explained that I do nice things when I feel like it, not obligated to. She’s never asked for one since.

Sent nudes on snapchat
When she was younger to a couple flings and her boyfriends.


Green flags

Fantastic relationship with her father

Respects him and loves him utterly. Loves to be guided by him. He himself is a confident and outgoing man. I’d say he exhibits more leadership and alpha male traits. Growing up, however, he was a bit of a nerd and stoner.

Generosity
After I’d slept with her, on our next date at a friend’s bday I said that I’d run out of money and that she’d need to pay for the night. She gave her card to use for the night.
There have been many other occasions I’ve run out of money (Due to my athlete lifestyle) and she’s happily paid for food and bills etc.

Intelligence and Ambition
She is exceptionally intelligent, and is worldly from travelling often with her family. She comes across as ambitious, wanting a high end luxurious lifestyle as she was brought up with, although she mostly expects me to be the one to get us there.

Willing to help out with my life
I’m an athlete and although I am not quite there financially yet (My career shows strong potential), she is always willing to help out in any way if I need. She makes time to help me out in times of competition and brings me peace. She’ll also cut my hair to help me save money.

Willing to be lead by me
Since meeting me I’ve told her she’s not going out to bars or clubs etc unless without me. She’s cut out all the bad habits and cultivated good ones such as going to the gym and reading more often. She respects all the boundaries I’ve set in the relationship and takes my viewpoint on them as if her own when talking to her friends. Eg. I told her that ‘girls shouldn’t have guy friends’ and she tells her friends this now too.

Has only ever dated one guy at a time
She’s never dated multiple people at once, and once she finds out that they lack a strong future, she will cut ties completely and not look back. On the dating apps, the only dates she’s ever been on are the ones I’ve mentioned in her sexual history. (Although she’s probably had her fair share of hook ups and flings on nights out from ages 16-18.)

When I asked her what she was looking for early on she said that she'd 'rather loved and lost than not loved at all'. (In the context that her parents lived overseas and she might not stay in Australia)

Spends time researching and learning my field of work
In her spare time she will often listen to podcasts and research people or companies in my field and share what she’s learned with me. She takes an active interest in my journey as an athlete.

Share’s her phone’s location with me
She voluntarily put her phone’s location available for me to see at any time incase of an emergency.

Cut off bad friends
One of her housemates when I met her was her friend from Singapore she’d known since she was 12. Her parents were friends with their parents. I told her this girl was bad news, and she knew that too, but was sentimental due to the fact she’d known her since she was young. Within a couple weeks she’d had a conversation with her that she no longer wanted to associate with her and once their lease was up in a couple months that she’d wanted to seek out a place without her.

Honesty about partying
I put this as a green flag because most women seldom own up to a bad past. I remember when I met her early on I asked what she’d gone through to turn into the person she is today: She said that she used to be ‘more liberal’, not in the sense of political views but more in terms of her behaviour, when she used to go out partying as a teenager, but now she was becoming more conservative- especially compared to her friends. (Some of her friends she grew up with were proper hoes and she’s an angel compared to them) But she admitted to it as pretty degenerative behaviour early on with me, and I think honesty is a green flag.
 
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Sounds like an awesome girl to me!

Everyone does some stupid or rebellious stuff when young. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Except for doing cocaine, that one is sort of a yellow flag for me but as long as she doesn't have a habit I guess it's forgivable.

It seems she is very open and trusting to you, which is great. Her relationship with her father is also important. I've come to believe that girls will treat their boyfriends more or less like their father. My last girlfriend didn't even know her father, her parents separated when she was 4 or so and man... let me just say I don't want that experience again.

EDIT: Oh and as for Chase's article regarding tattoos, I wonder if that even still applies in today's world. Where I live, tattoos are so ubiquitous, most girls here have multiple tattoos including arms, hands, sometimes even neck and face. While I hate face tattoos estetically (sp?), I don't think that girls who have lots of tattoos are automatically unfit to date.

I wouldn't want a girl with a face tattoo though, that's just ugly. But it's a personal preferrence.
 
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@gameboy,

EDIT: Oh and as for Chase's article regarding tattoos, I wonder if that even still applies in today's world. Where I live, tattoos are so ubiquitous, most girls here have multiple tattoos including arms, hands, sometimes even neck and face. While I hate face tattoos estetically (sp?), I don't think that girls who have lots of tattoos are automatically unfit to date.

Yeah, # and extent of tattoos is still pretty strongly correlated with personality disorders, mental issues, feminism/political radicalism, etc., despite the rise in popularity (remember, mental disorders have also exploded in popularity at the same time..).

2016 study finding this | Here's a 2023 study finding that BPD women are 2.5x more likely to be pierced & tatted than average.

2023 study on why women are getting tatted more:

Gender has a significant role in bodily experience. Women’s bodies are more often subject to social evaluation than men’s and are often self-objectified. Women perceive their bodies in the way the social environment does and try to match social standards of appearance (Fredrickson and Roberts 1997). Swami and Furnham (2007) showed that women with tattoos are perceived as less attractive, alcohol abusers, and sexually promiscuous. Research on body perceptions with tattoos was also conducted by Hawkes et al. (2004). The researchers concluded that women with tattoos are perceived worse than those without, regardless of the size and visibility of their tattoos. Currently, an increasing number of women are opting for tattoos, which may indicate that tattooing may represent an attempt to regain control of one’s own body and create it according to one’s own rules. It is not clear how tattoos affect women’s bodily experience. On the one hand, they may cause a sense of agency and overcome empowerment; on the other hand, once tattooed and exposed to social judgment, they may worsen the way one experiences one’s body.

IOW for a lot of women it's the same thing as pink hair, not shaving pits/legs, "free bleeding", etc. Standing up to men / The Patriarchy. The discussion section of the paper divides tatted women into three different camps based on how they think about their bodies... it's sort of interesting reading:

The first variation of mental body representations in tattooed women was described as the integrated body self. This type was found in the largest percentage of participants (approx. 45%). It is associated with a positive body experience, experience of one’s own body as the origin of their agency and self-efficacy, as well as acceptance of one’s own appearance. The gathered data is consistent with findings of Mun et al. (2012), who illustrated that tattooed individuals display a deep connection with their bodies. For women with an integrated body self, tattooing is likely an act of adorning their body, further increasing its attractiveness. The tattoo, thus, is used to articulate the self and one’s individuality in social situations, analogous to other forms of self-expression (e.g., clothing or jewelry). In consequence, for women with an integrated body self, the aesthetic and expressive functions of the tattoo empower their sense of self-worth and perhaps positively impact body identity and personal identity development (Mirucka 2018).

The second type, which we refer to as the unstable body self, is associated with distorted mental body representations. It is primarily linked to difficulty in accepting one’s looks. Young females with this type of body experience feel discomfort as they focus their attention on the blemishes in their physical appearance. Periods of relative positive body image are disrupted by fixation on those areas of the body that are perceived as unattractive. The females that belong to this group likely utilize tattoos to conceal the features of their body that fail to meet traditional standards of feminine beauty. Due to issues in building a stable, positive body image, the body experience may become distorted, leading to lower psychophysical integrity. While they can handle body-related emotions rather well, during periods of increased psychological discomfort, these individuals will probably struggle to control their anxiety and shame arising from a negative body self-perception.

The third and final variant of mental body representations found in tattooed women aged 18 to 25 is the disordered body self. This type was found in approx. 19% of interviewed women. The participants in this group scored low on all three scales of mental body representations, scoring the lowest on the body image scale. Women with this type of body self-experience significant difficulty in reading internal body sensations and have a distorted sense of control of their own body. They likely struggle with understanding the information originating from within their body and the impact that information has on their emotions. Instead of viewing their body as a valuable instrument of locomotion (Damasio 2000), they perceive it as a handicap which is the source of their overburdening sensations and emotional states. Presumably, the heavily distorted body image of individuals with this type of body self can help us understand the way they regulate their negative emotions. One of the explanations is that they may use tattooing in place of self-injury. The act of tattooing is capable of diverting one’s attention; suppressing “unbearable” emotions through physical pain (Favazza and Rosenthal 1993; Favazza 1998; 2006). Body image is of crucial importance to people with tattoos (Kertzman et al. 2019). Women who exhibit a disordered body self strongly dislike their appearance. They view their own body as unattractive, even “defective,” necessitating serious modification — which is accomplished via tattoos, a permanent alteration of their appearance. The results of this study also correspond to findings of Stirn and Hinz (2008), which showed a connection between body modification (tattoos, piercings) and self-injury. Twenty-seven percent of participants in this study admitted to self-harm behavior during childhood. The abovementioned authors postulated that people with a history of self-harm may use tattoos as a substitute for self-injury. In other words, just as self-injury assists in regulation of emotional strain and management of dissociation, tattoos may adaptively help manage difficult emotional states. This view is supported by Claes et al. (2005) who determined that in individuals suffering from eating disorders, body modifications can help prevent acts of extreme self-injury.

The results of this study show that in tattooed women aged 18 to 25, there’s a strong connection between one’s mental body representations (one of the three types of body self) and their self-esteem. Women with an integrated body self had the highest self-esteem, while those with a disordered body self had very low self-esteem. This reveals that the self-esteem of tattooed individuals is not so much influenced by their tattoos as it is by their mental body representations. The inconclusiveness of various studies of tattooed individuals (Farrow et al. 1991; Kertzman et al. 2019; Pajor et al. 2015; Swami 2011) might have been a product of their noninclusion of the subject of mental body representations (Mirucka 2018).

Tattoos are also useful for class-based screening. 56% of American women 18-29 have tattoos. However, it really splits by class:

  • 37% of Americans who haven't graduated college have tattoos
  • 24% of Americans with a bachelor's degree have tattoos
  • 21% of Americans with a postgraduate degree have tattoos

  • 43% of lower-income adults have tattoos
  • 31% of middle-income adults have tattoos
  • 21% of upper-income adults have tattoos

If you're in the market for a certain class of girls (lower class, middle class, upper class), keeping an eye out for tats/piercings will help you screen out or in.

I like highly educated & upper class girls, so tend to screen pretty hard around tats/piercings. But if you dislike those types, and like girls with less of a traditional education / not so focused on career, wealth, status, etc., more of the free spirit types, then tats & piercings might be positive "screen-in" signals for you.

Chase
 

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@EasyE,

She sounds like she's tried things a few times (weed, coke, ONS, sending nudes, etc.) then decided against it.

The ONS she had she didn't even want... a friend pushed her toward it.

You'd expect that experience to lead her to be warier of people pushing her to do things, too.

I'm not a fan of tattoos but if it's normal for your/her social class / the class of girls you're going for, the ones she has sound like no big deal.

All in all if you're looking for a non-wild / not-a-huge-infidelity-risk girlfriend, this girl sounds like a fairly safe bet.

Chase
 

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If you're in the market for a certain class of girls (lower class, middle class, upper class), keeping an eye out for tats/piercings will help you screen out or in.
Yes, that seems to be the case. I don't have a class preference either way, so tattoos aren't a huge factor for me except estetically.

If she has tats all over her body, I might be more on the lookout about some kind of personality disorder... but I've been with un-tattooed women that were crazy as well.
 
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@EasyE,

All in all if you're looking for a non-wild / not-a-huge-infidelity-risk girlfriend, this girl sounds like a fairly safe bet.

Chase

Hey Chase, I appreciate it mate. This was what I needed to hear from you.

She's still young, so we'll see what kind of quality woman she continues to develop into, but I've got the main thing bothering me out the way now- so I can focus on the important things.

Thank you.
 

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I think worrying about some of this stuff is a little paranoid and unnecessary.

Sure, you can talk about statistical associations with tattoos and various other things, but you're dating this girl. Her behavior, the way she talks, the choices she makes, etc, tell you infinitely more things about who she is than whether or not she has tattoos or whether her bodycount is 2 vs 4.

The better questions to ask are do you like being around this girl, do you like/admire/respect her, is she compatible with what you want from a relationship, etc. Who really cares if she smoked weed in high school if you love being around her and think she makes a good girlfriend. The latter is a way more meaningful signal
 

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Good day!

First things first, she's still young, 20 is like a child in this generation.
I had a chick i was banging, she was 23 and her bodycount was over 20.. Could be even more, not sure, didn't care either..
So your girl's bodycount would probably be accepted in churches if she ever wished to take a vow.

Speculation on bodycount is totally unecessary.

What comes to sending nudes on snaps, smoking, using drugs... I mean.. It doesn't even matter what she was doing, i think your paranoia is keeping you from going all in with this girl, which is completely unecessary.

We all have done things in the past, which to be frank aren't really that big of a deal in her case anyways. But that doesn't mean we should be judged till the rest of our lives.

She's in Uni, working partly at Cafe, even though she could get all the money from her father. To me she looks like a solid girl, who has values and wants to make a career.

I advise you to drop your paranoia and water that flower like there was no tomorrow, because she genuinely seems like a nice girl.
 
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