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Number of 'lonely, single' men is on the rise as women with higher dating standards look for partners who are are 'emotionally available, good communicators, and share similar values', says psychologist
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 15, 2022 | Jessica Green

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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KEYWORDS: dating; marriage; men; women
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To: Arcadian Empire

DING! Or they spend their 20s in school or just traveling and having some “me time”, etc. Then they hit 30 and want a guy their age who has worked hard and who is on the way up in his career.

They might well have been desirable in their 20s but that guy now does not want them. He wants what they were 5-10 years ago. Then they get angry and bitter that now that they’re finally ready, they can’t get a good man.


221 posted on 08/15/2022 8:36:42 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Mark17

They is you! 😂


222 posted on 08/15/2022 8:42:50 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: CivilWarBrewing

That sounds like the mindset I had in high school.

First off, women aren’t a monolith. There are some dumbass women out there that have stupid criteria by which they choose men. There are men who do the same. But they don’t ALL want one thing. It does so happen that the one thing most of them do NOT want (in spite of their saying otherwise) is a ‘nice guy’. Nice guys are boring. There’s not a whole lot to talk about. They’re so busy being nice that they look weak. Well adjusted women have a desire for a strong, competent, and take-charge man. A man who takes-charge, not because they think they’re entitled to it, but because they’re a natural leader.

Women often mistake the asshats who are just jerks for what they’re looking for, because the ‘nice guys’ are so damn busy being giant wusses that they never show that they’re a real man. (If they even are...)

I used to be a ‘nice guy’. I went through all the training and indoctrination to be one of those guys who gets ignored. But I figured out early on that being a ‘nice guy’ was getting me the girls I didn’t want and I couldn’t get near the ones I did. So, I corrected.

Does that mean I’m no longer nice? Not at all. But I bring value to the table. I bring ambition, drive, success, knowledge, and experience with me. I am strong in mind and body. And when I want something, I damn well make it known. I don’t sit around and hope someone gives it to me like a ‘nice guy’.

At the end of the day, I still worship the ground my wife walks on, because I love her and she’s my best friend. I knew it the night I met her that she was the one. But if I had been ‘nice’ when that chance came along, I wouldn’t have gotten anywhere with her.


223 posted on 08/15/2022 8:47:10 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: C19fan
Number of 'lonely, single' men is on the rise as women with higher dating standards look for partners who are are 'emotionally available, good communicators, and share similar values'

I'd bet a good number of those women with "higher dating standards" are pretty lonely themselves and will remain so until those higher standards get cut down to size by reality.
224 posted on 08/15/2022 8:48:05 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: fruser1
Fool proof plan for women to get any man:
Show up naked.
Bring beer.

Let me correct that...
"Fool proof plan for a women to get a foolish man"

You're welcome.

225 posted on 08/15/2022 8:51:19 PM PDT by disclaimer
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

That’s how they justify their lonelinest.
They can’t find a man that fits their standards.


226 posted on 08/15/2022 9:01:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Yep. I know of which I speak. 👍


227 posted on 08/15/2022 9:04:10 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Mariner

They o ly want a 10-inch chocolate penis that ejaculates money on demand.


228 posted on 08/15/2022 9:40:58 PM PDT by txeagle
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To: systemjim

And the average shark soon discovers that most are remoras.


229 posted on 08/15/2022 9:43:56 PM PDT by txeagle
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To: usconservative

It’s so sad, that even knowing me makes you more like me.


230 posted on 08/15/2022 9:44:09 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
At the end of the day, I still worship the ground my wife walks on

I tried that. It just got dirt in my mouth, and chipped teeth from the pebbles.

231 posted on 08/15/2022 9:46:29 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: airborne

“ Alone, but not lonely.”

The Sigma male.


232 posted on 08/15/2022 9:46:42 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Mark17
Since men in general, and white men in particular, have been emasculated and totally marginalized by the left wing, liberal, socialist, pinko commie geeks in America

Notice white women are attracted to black men? It's because they're alpha.

233 posted on 08/15/2022 9:52:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Notice white women are attracted to black men? It's because they're alpha.

Some are, but others I talked to, who were not attracted, didn’t know why others are.

234 posted on 08/15/2022 10:02:13 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: dfwgator
for ever, western men have entertained the thought that only women that look like a barbie doll are "good enough" for them...

thus, many good women will never marry nor have children....and many men will never marry and never have children.....

and then we wonder why the white population is diminishing...

235 posted on 08/15/2022 10:05:17 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Arcadian Empire

I know.

Sometimes people just have to learn to stretch themselves.


236 posted on 08/15/2022 10:27:20 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Arcadian Empire
A lot of very very tainted thirtysomething women, after a decade of being drunken hoes, want to be courted as though they were untainted.

Meanwhile, thirtysomething guys spent the decade becoming prosperous, and therefor can draw the interest of twentysomething women who haven’t ruined themselves.

Interesting to see how men condemn in women what they allow in themselves.

237 posted on 08/15/2022 10:31:43 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: cherry

Spot on. Men who cite the 80-20 rule forget that 80% of men are also chasing the most attractive 20% of women. Male hypergamy is the elephant in the room that no one dares mention.


238 posted on 08/15/2022 10:33:36 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Someone on a previous thread pointed out that women aren’t necessarily attracted to the bad boy types because of their badness, but because women are attracted to self-confidence in a man.

IMO, the bad boy types are usually arrogant beyond words and women interpret that, or rather misinterpret that, as self-confidence.


239 posted on 08/15/2022 10:42:13 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: cherry
for ever, western men have entertained the thought that only women that look like a barbie doll are "good enough" for them...

The biggest laugh I have is the dregs of society guys who look like skid row bums seem to think that they deserve and could land someone who looks like a model.

Somehow it doesn’t seem to occur to them that women also want to like what they see as well.

It’s funny how men demand physical beauty and then complain when the personality doesn’t match.

240 posted on 08/15/2022 10:46:36 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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