Shrinkage.

Interesting reading.  Flipping through some of my psychology and sociology textbooks in order to decide what I'm going to keep and what I'm going to get rid of.  This was a chapter that grabbed my attention - in regards to the "type" of men in Western society.  Reading this certainly made me far less depressed about a situation in which I had to make an ugly decision.  Sadly, I'm still dealing with residual guilt, even though I knew that severing ties with this person was the healthiest thing for me at the time.

“The introspective, the unusual, the unattractive, and all too often the bitter. Gammas are often intelligent, usually unsuccessful with women, and not uncommonly all but invisible to them, the gamma alternates between placing women on pedestals and hating the entire sex. This mostly depends upon whether an attractive woman happened to notice his existence or not that day. Too introspective for their own good, gammas are the men who obsess over individual women for extended periods of time and supply the ranks of stalkers, psycho-jealous ex-boyfriends, and the authors of excruciatingly romantic rhyming doggerel. In the unlikely event they are at the party, they are probably in the corner muttering darkly about the behavior of everyone else there… sometimes to themselves. Gammas tend to have have a worship/hate relationship with women, the current direction of which is directly tied to their present situation. However, they are sexual rejects, not social rejects.  They identify with women as being friends, but usually jealousy, manipulation, and outright 'twisting of words' will force those friendships to come to an unpleasant end.  The Gamma wants attention and when he finds people that do provide for his needs, he will eventually emotionally strangle them.  He is needy and can be very unpleasant when certain expectations set by him are not met by others.  They are also known to compartmentalize certain aspects of their life by avoiding overlap completely.  This makes it nearly impossible to maintain a friendship status with a Gamma male, as he will only be as honest as necessary.  The Gamma cannot be expected to be relied on for much if it isn't in his interest or if it will not further his agenda as these males are as selfish as those around them allow them to be.” - Donall & Stephens, 2008 (textbook edit/Modern Psychology)

Any spelling errors are mine and mine alone.  

Oh, and I think I'm going to keep this textbook.