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He has no need of love. The strong sociopathic streak that it takes to succeed in his world makes it quite unnecessary. As a matter of fact, I hope he keeps single and chasing down easy sex.
Do you really want to wish a guy like him on some poor unwitting romantic?
It is better that people keep to their own "kind." By this, I mean that idealists should marry idealists, romantics should marry romantics, practical types should look for other practical types, those who want the conventional, two or three kids and go-to-church-on-Sunday types should find each other and not make some agnostic miserable.
People needing other people may be the luckiest people in the world, but hedgie is happy in his world, doing terribly important stuff like making money and getting laid.
Don't try to rouse those types from their emotional slumber. Let them be. They would only wreak havoc on any normal woman seeking a normal relationship. Let them chase bimbos with boob jobs and playgirls who are of their ilk, who themselves don't want to get married or paired up but only laid. It is not only men who keep a tally of their conquests. Some women do to.
Of course many of them also have a significant sociopathic streak. The diagnosis of women like that has been vastly underestimated IMO, and often misdiagnosed as borderline disorder or narcissism. Really! There are women out there for hedgy.
However, for those young women wishing to avoid his type, here's a hint:
Players and PUAs refer to men as men or guys. In contrast, they refer to women as girls or females. They will almost never speak of women as women. They will never get real women. Every smart woman over 25 or 30 knows how to spot them. She may have wasted some of her youth on one of them, but only dummies keep going out with these guys and expecting love or committment.
I recommend that every woman who is actively dating read Neil Strauss's The Game, so that they will know how to spot bullshit liars when they encounter them.
