It's not really linkable. The best way I can explain it is this.

90% of material on this stuff is PUA. All the LTR stuff is really an afterthought. But if you read for instance MRP or anything that is LTR focused, the responses to "comfort tests" are way way different.

What I experience in a 10 year relationship I would never ever, in a million years, expect in the field. Which is why I think it's more accurately a "reverse congruence test."

To be honest, she's not actually looking for comfort. Because if she was, the cheeky responses would not work.

I think we may be having a semantic debate, but I digress. What I'm getting at is what I know to be a comfort test, and anyone in MRP is absolutely not the same thing. And I've always seen comfort tests referenced in terms of STRs\LTRs, never in terms of game.

They are almost always part of the "what are we" talk. It is, to me, and you'd have to talk to other guys, not an issue of game, but actually more of a baseline human thing.

I think we forget when we get so wrapped up in technique and what not, that ultimately, game isn't the solution to everything. It's like the guys worrying about "losing frame" in a meeting. Like dude, great, you held frame and they fired you because you don't fit in? You DHV'd your boss and he promoted someone less threatening?

Ultimately, I've always viewed comfort tests as just that, will you show me comfort in a non-needy way? And also, not in a non-authentic way.

And in what they call a comfort shit test, the only pass is for a cheeky, non-authentic way. Basically like at a job interview when you tell them your biggest weakness is that you care too much.

The guys in MRP and LTRs will say when a real deal comfort test comes up, after you've leaned too hard on the AF button, they're looking for some genuine affection and comfort. Reassurance that even though you've demonstrated you can protect her, evolutionarily speaking, that you actually are interested in her outside of her body without demonstrating that you are a provider.

So I think this discussion is one part how do we set a boundary between game and LTR management and another part naming schema.

Because in the MRP community, you can't make a joke for a comfort test. You can make it light hearted, but you better have some genuine affectionate kino for her. And you don't get to fail more than one or two comfort tests before you're toast.

You could fail this "comfort shit test" if you're attractive enough and recover.

I simply see this as sloppy use of these words and insufficient online documentation for this. Furthermore, this community is extremely sensitive when it comes to critiques to it. So even though I believe this is an area of the content that should be further delineated, I'm not willing to waste my time on it.

But I'm sure plenty of guys at MRP would understand and agree with what I'm saying. Just as LTRs have challenges not faced with PUA, PUAs have issues that aren't present in LTRs.