Posted on 08/15/2022 5:48:20 PM PDT by C19fan
Men are lonelier than ever as they struggle to meet the higher dating standards of modern women, according to a psychologist.
American psychologist Greg Matos wrote in a recent Psychology Today article that the current state of young and middle-aged men's love lives shows they need to 'address a skills deficit'.
He said: 'I hear recurring dating themes from women between the ages of 25 and 45: They prefer men who are emotionally available, good communicators, and share similar values'.
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Jordan. That is a secret. Hot single women of the middle east go to Jordan to meet western men. They want to have children and be wives, they just don’t want abusive ME men. Have a few friends that went that route. And the women are attentive.
The “bad boy” attraction.
“A man is not complete until he’s married...and then he’s finished”
Filipinas too. I got me one of those. Ernest Tubb was dead on.
Before online dating existed, I couldn’t get anyone. Once online dating became a thing I found myself in higher demand. Really evened the playing field for those who didn’t have a good “in-person game” and were too socially awkward to be pickup artists.
“You simply cannot have a relationship anymore with people you aren’t politically aligned with,”
I can’t even sit at the same table with someone like that.
There should be dating services that are specifically for women who want to start and raise a family and men who want to start and raise a family.
Well i am seperated. My house is cleaner, i eat better,and am less stressed out. And no five cats to deal with. Too busy to be lonely much. But obviously i would prefer a harmonius marriage.
Women need the structure that men provide, and when women are unaccountable and thus divorced from the structure that men provide, women lose all connection to rationality.
Women need a man like John Wayne in Angel and the Badman.
Not in the Philippines, where I went. 🤗
Most women would knock a good family man out of the way to get to a use-them-and-lose-them bad boy type.
I would prefer a partner for companionship, but I feel like it’s too late for me.
I’m too scarred emotionally to ever let my guard down again.
But on the plus side, I feel better without that ex-person screwing with my head and heart.
I’ve definitely got more money now that she isn’t pissing it away. And two sons who I love and who love me.
If it flies, floats or fornicates; lease it!
Men are designed to fix things.
Asking men to not fix things is unnatural.
It sounds like you succeeded in life.
Good work.
Especially Classy Green Eyed Blonde 😉
I spent decades of my life single, literally thinking I would never find that “right” one. My wife may not be rocking the cover of a magazine, but she is attractive. She has a great heart and we love each other's company. She has never been -itchy or anything other than loving, and I hope she'd say something similar about me. I can minorly frustrate her and she can immediately sense when I'm the same with her, and she is usually right on top of it, asking if I'm okay. These occasions don't even happen with ny frequency.
I can say she's a bit younger than I am, and she only ever wanted to marry someone older. She has a STEM undergrad, as do I.
She is a woman of God, and that is probably her most attractive quality. Following God is most important to her, and is one of the qualities I wanted in my wife, and I think I generally meet this, with her, too.
I was sometimes jealous of some who married great-looking girls or saddened when a girl I thought was sweet married a likely jerk of a man, but when it came to my Christian friends and acquaintances ever marrying, I was always just happy for both partners—never jealous. If anything, I was sometimes saddened, because I knew I wouldn't be doing much with either, any more, but it kept me looking for the right one, for me.
It took years, but it paid off. I always felt like such a woman would become noticeable to me, as the pickings became fewer, and in a way, that is somewhat what happened.
I knew I could not settle with a woman who was also not a great friend and that it was far better to remain single than to be in a bad marriage, but when you aren't in any relationship, that becomes a hard pill to continually swallow.
In the end, I met her online, and she was not local to me, but we agreed to meet after talking a while and we spent time with friends in the area, so it was quasi-chaparoned. That was a great start and we each saw the genuine other person was whom we had seen over our messaging/video app, over the prior months.
It continued, from there, and we are both really happy we found each other, and we hope others can have similarly healthy relationships.
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