There's been some bitching and moaning about GLO's thread about women in relationships being easy pickings. Allow me to put some things to rest:

  1. Game itself is amoral
  2. There's no need for the butthurt over "stealing" another man's gf or wife, namely because you cannot "steal" someone. It's a myth I'll elaborate on below...

First things first, "women are like monkeys." When I say women are like monkeys it's in the Tarzan sense of swinging from tree to tree. They don't let go of one branch until they have a firm grip on the next. Women are the same way with relationships. That's essentially Rule #1 why high quality women are so rarely single for any length of time.

Not wanting to go after a woman in a relationship, IMO, really comes down to being a limiting belief. Case in point: roughly half of all marriages fail nowadays, and unmarried couples in relationships break up even more. It's not uncommon for attractive women to go directly from one man to the next, this is why they're rarely single for any length of time: they have new guys lined up already! Once you face this reality then you can use it to your advantage.

What it comes right down to, in all honesty, is that if boyfriends mattered so much then women wouldn't give their numbers out to some certain types of men and tell others they're seeing someone. (or in some cases turn out to be married!) Many women are on the lookout for the next best thing for a variety of reasons (see also: hypergamy & Briffault's Law). If you're not that guy then it's just going to be someone else.

To quote Decibel, author of the PUA Field Guide from a few years back (which I contributed to writing):

Make girls happy, that's your job. Take that girl out of her unhappy relationship and show her a better time. She'll thank you for it. She's not going to break up with her current BF for many reasons including: girls like sex and won't give it up needlessly; girls like having someone to hang out with and will overlook other problems in him but are constantly watching for better options; breaking up takes a bunch of emotional effort that many people avoid until something else is lined up.

I personally would get yourself past the boyfriend/girlfriend hurdle and keep gaming these 'unavailable' girls. It many times is just a fling that's gone on too long, and many of these chicks are more than happy to jump ship when a [high quality] guy...comes along.
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You can't "steal" a girl, as ballsy as it sounds. She makes her mind up to go with the higher value man. All you can do is present a better option. [emphasis mine]

As far the ethics of it, there aren't any. All girls are fair game. You make your own rules about what's off limits, and then go from there. I hit on girls in front of their BFs all the time. I usually ask her if it's ok for me to do it. It's his problem, not mine.

In other words there is no reason to wait or hold back from pursuing a woman you're interested in, even if she's in a relationship. If their relationship is strong, then nothing you say or do will change that. But...you may just be a better match for her than her current SO and the both of you would be missing out on something awesome if you hold back.


One last thing, if you're not familiar with Boyfriend Objections, they're the automatic response women throw out if you telegraph too much interest or move too fast. Sometimes the boyfriend is real, other times they are not. As a rule of thumb treat the bf objection as a shit test. Basically when that happens it's just a test to see if you've got the stones to keep pushing. If he's real, she will definitely bring it up again and you can adjust your Game accordingly, or stop gaming her and shift into making a new friend who's friends you can add as plates instead.

More often than not I've found when a woman tosses out the old bf objection, if I agree & amplify and quickly change subjects, there's no more talk of a boyfriend if one doesn't exist. However, expect another mention later on if he is in fact real, but again, don't let that stop you. This traces right back to "Always let a woman figure out why she wont fuck you, never do it for her."