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What Successful Women Should Know about Love and Marriage
Townhall.com ^ | October 10, 2019 | Katie Yoder

Posted on 10/11/2019 4:52:18 AM PDT by Kaslin

Successful women face special barriers in love and marriage, according to one relationship coach. But that doesn’t mean they can’t still strive for a happily ever after.

On October 9, the Washington Examiner published an opinion piece on, “Why super-successful women struggle in love.” Relationship expert and author Suzanne Venker claimed that “few, if any, women” can have both “power in the world” and “power in bed.” While she backed up her arguments, her piece left something to be desired by women: encouragement.

Venker began by referencing a Wall Street Journal piece, arguing that “As women have become more and more rich, love has indeed become more and more elusive.”

She pointed to an email about one of the women dealing with this very problem – written by the woman’s mother.

“I’d like to talk to you about my daughter who’s a high achiever,” the mom began. “She’s a thirty-eight-year-old, well-educated (two Ivy League schools), creative, intelligent, sophisticated, loving, successful, attractive, with a model-like body, and surprisingly can’t find a desired partner.”

While previously “she wasted many years on several senseless relationships,” her daughter is “extremely unhappy that she doesn’t have a partner,” or children.

In response, Venker urged that not only do successful single women struggle, but also women who serve as the primary breadwinner. There are many reasons why “love becomes a struggle the more successful women become,” she said, including the “pursuit of a post-secondary education and career.”

“Jumping in full throttle and making work the center of one’s life, as young women are encouraged to do, invariably means this group will be unable to take advantage of their greatest marital bargaining power,” she said.

That main “bargaining power” appeared to be beauty.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: baloney; boysclub; love; marriage; mgtow; pua; redpill; slutwalk; success
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To: Kaslin

TOXIC FEMININITY!


21 posted on 10/11/2019 5:37:27 AM PDT by ProudVet97
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To: EvilCapitalist

(under the table)

And re-looking, I see a BIG picture of a cat over the bed!


22 posted on 10/11/2019 5:38:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Cecily
Who might you have met if you didn’t waste years with Mr. Non-Commitment?

Yes, exactly.

23 posted on 10/11/2019 5:38:47 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

“Promiscuity and happyness tend to be immiscible.”

She probably has saber-toothed crotch crickets!


24 posted on 10/11/2019 5:39:57 AM PDT by ProudVet97
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To: Elsie
And re-looking, I see a BIG picture of a cat over the bed!

And look at all the cuddly stuffed toys she has accumulated!

25 posted on 10/11/2019 5:40:36 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Kaslin

——relationship coach——

A woman with a relationship coach is prima fascia a failure


26 posted on 10/11/2019 5:41:02 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: TalBlack
Oh WTF is”power in bed”? Geez! For most, it's an electric vibrator.
27 posted on 10/11/2019 5:41:04 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Paid For By The Father of Lies. There is no truth in them.)
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To: Kaslin

Interesting comments/discussion. From a simpler time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0XgNfc7qQ

To 1963...

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

https://www.dtss.us/blog/the-communist-takeover-of-america-45-declared-goals/

To 1973...


28 posted on 10/11/2019 5:41:35 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kaslin

1 Corinthians 14:34
Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.

1 Timothy 2:8–14
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Wealth, Status, and Power...
As addictive as Cocaine, but never satisfying,
Moar and Moar needed, until one is destroyed

......On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
Kipling


29 posted on 10/11/2019 5:43:11 AM PDT by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: Kaslin

““She’s a thirty-eight-year-old, well-educated (two Ivy League schools), creative, intelligent, sophisticated, loving, successful, attractive, with a model-like body, and surprisingly can’t find a desired partner.”

Have I got a deal for you..


30 posted on 10/11/2019 5:45:58 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Vermont Lt

...They use the word power a lot.
...I give up all my power to my wife, and she to me

All that I am
All that I have
All that I will be, is yours
For as long as we both shall be

Are not just pretty words


31 posted on 10/11/2019 5:46:42 AM PDT by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: elcid1970

I’m a girl. what I see that the picture Is supposed to signify is an independent, feminine, smart, successful woman.

What it actually signifies to me is an unladylike stripper dominatrix pushed dame who would have her scrawny boyfriend pay up- her terms- if he didn’t have a dozen red roses delivered to her work desk on some special day in her life.

She’s looking in the mirror wondering why others don’t find her as attractive as she does.

I see a girl like that and I steer clear. She might kick me with those platform stillettos if I turn up my nose Which I can’t help but do b


32 posted on 10/11/2019 5:48:10 AM PDT by stanne
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To: elcid1970
What does that picture signify? I’m stumped.

Me, too. She doesn't look at all like the women I expect to be having this issue. She seems to be contemplating her teddy bear collection, not a mirror or a phone or a laptop. She looks college-aged or younger. That full head of long hair being the dead giveaway. By the time women are in the workforce, those locks have been sheared down to the neck or mid-shoulders length.

33 posted on 10/11/2019 5:48:57 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Paid For By The Father of Lies. There is no truth in them.)
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To: Candor7

The Buddhists are right about our desires and attachments


34 posted on 10/11/2019 5:49:11 AM PDT by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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To: a fool in paradise
Bingo. Yes, women still want to marry up. This becomes progressively more difficult the higher a woman climbs on the degree/career/income pyramid. It's basic math. Numbers dwindle with each step up. And to top it off, since men will marry laterally and down, most of the good guys will already be married by their early 30's. If a woman spends her young and attractive years prioritizing career (and sleeping around on the side), she is painting herself into a corner. The thing is, smart young women, at some level, KNOW this. But feminist indoctrination encourages them to live in denial and then to become bitter and angry when they reap what they sow.

The solution? Marry earlier. Approach marriage as a partnership to build a life and family, not as a trophy to mark achievement of another status goal.

35 posted on 10/11/2019 5:50:57 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: marktwain
While previously “she wasted many years on several senseless relationships,”

Translation: she got into relationships with men who were fine with having her around as long as it meant "no strings" sex, but who were uninterested in actually marrying her.

Women may understand this reality intellectually, but not emotionally: they need to spend their youthful years looking for a man who will actually be interested in marriage, not in engaging in "Sex and the City" fantasies. Women keep getting into relationships with men who are "out of their league", but who are willing to keep them around fox sex, until a woman they like better comes along.

36 posted on 10/11/2019 5:52:19 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Kaslin

You’re “successful” because you’ve busted balls to get to the top. You’re convinced that all men are obstacles to your continued success. So is it any surprise that no man wants to venture into that mine field?

Most men are looking for a partner, not a boss.


37 posted on 10/11/2019 5:52:37 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: sphinx

Oh. Yeah. And then there’s the sleeping around factor


38 posted on 10/11/2019 5:53:13 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Kaslin

Hypergamy.

It really isn’t complicated.


39 posted on 10/11/2019 5:53:28 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Kaslin

When I see these types of articles I always think about Kinky Friedman’s great line: “If women didn’t have vaginas, men would never talk to them”.

Until ‘successful’ women learn it’s about CHARACTER, not wealth, these things will keep happening. MARRY DOWN dummies! Too highly successful people have one very big issue . . . which one checks their ego at the door when they get home and it’s necessary to do so? Neither are used to not getting their way.


40 posted on 10/11/2019 5:54:15 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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