A man's partner left him over lack of sex, and he spiraled into drugs, partying, and strip clubs trying to prove his manhood. Joe Fier points out those quick fixes only give temporary dopamine hits and come with real costs.
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I walked, got home from the gym, and she had her bags packed, and she literally said to me, I'm leaving you because we're not having sex and I need sex, and that's it. And she was gone. And that led me down a path of addiction. Drugs, partying, going to strip joints because I had. Because for me, it felt like I lost my manhood. That's what that hit me. Like, my manhood's gone. So how do I get my manhood back? Oh, let me go to strip joints. Let me go to after hours. Let me party with all the. All the chicks, you know, Let me show everybody that I'm a man. So I put on this mask to mask my manhood, but it's still. Now it's leading me down into even deeper hole, right?
It's like a dopamine hit, but that only lasts for so long. You're. You're obviously out more money now, too, but in a whole lot of time. And yeah.