Maybe you would find &quot;The Game&quot; by N. Strauss useful.<p>Don&#x27;t get too distracted by their &quot;evolutionary science&quot; which is 80% bullcrap, don&#x27;t get too excited by their &quot;tricks&quot; which are straight way to maneuver yourself into position where you&#x27;ll be constantly forced to lie and feel like shit for doing so. Just read their story.<p>Let&#x27;s say that it opened my mind to what kinds of insanity people do in the name of something they want to be love. I used to be badly afraid of ending in a bad relationship, but since reading this I started to notice more and more of low-level mechanics underlying such relationships and my fear of women is slowly subsiding.