A Little About Me Part 3

Being totally defeated, I surrendered. I went to one of those meetings. You know what those meetings are like. Those meetings are where you get brainwashed, manipulated out of your hard earned money, pushed into doing things you wouldn’t normally do to save your life, suffer terrible self-esteem issues feeling like a failure because you can’t sign up 20 people a day like that guy on stage.

You know that guy on stage! He’s the one in the Italian suit no one knows. He’s never a part of anyone’s upline. He has fantastic stories about how he built his business in 3 seconds flat. He’s the one who tells you that if you can’t do this business then you’re just a big fat loser. He’s extremely wealthy because he’s a paid actor (or at least that’s how it seemed to me).

I went to one of those meetings, with all my defenses in place. I built my mental brick wall that nothing could penetrate. My BS detector was set to go off at the slightest sound. I was READY.

Funny thing is, the speaker at this meeting was my boyfriend’s sponsor. Funny thing is, there were several other people there that I had met at other functions who seemed very normal (some played softball with us, others had been involved in our rugby team). Funny thing is, my boyfriend’s sponsor and upline are actually successful. Funny thing is, I met people there who are independently wealthy and they aren’t paid actors! Funny thing is, they are actually a part of the MLM genealogy that my boyfriend was and still is associated with.

They weren’t paid actors. They didn’t build their business in 3 seconds flat. They never once even implied that I’m a big fat lazy good-for-nothing if I can’t achieve my wildest dreams in record time.

After attending a few meetings, meeting more successful people, walking away not feeling brainwashed at all… I decided to berate my boyfriend!

My boyfriend had been a customer for several years. Even though he attended meetings he never tried to sell this stuff. He never took the opportunity. He was very knowledgeable in the company and the products. He has a fantastic upline who are always eager to help him. But he chose, instead, to work paycheck to paycheck in a dead-end job and just buy the products. What an IDIOT.

I never saw my uncle make any money in all the MLM’s he tried. I never knew anyone who actually succeeded in an MLM. That is one of the biggest complaints within the anti-MLM community. A very common attitude in the anti-MLM community is, “you can’t really succeed unless you’re sleazy”.

We had proof that it does and can work for people who are very nice, pleasant, not a sleazy or pushy bone in their bodies. I suddenly knew people who succeeded!

And my boyfriend decided to ignore all the success surrounding him and continue working a paycheck to paycheck dead-end job.

I didn’t ignore it. I married this man. We are now a team trying to give our downlines as much support as we got from our uplines.

It’s an awesome business! And because of it, I now get to torture my husband in a way I never considered before. I’ll never let him live down the fact that if he had taken this opportunity many years ago, I could have married a rich man!