Posted on 03/24/2025 5:58:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
After a handful of underwhelming relationships and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea Vorlicek recently called off the search for a husband.
The 29-year-old always thought she’d have found her life partner by now. Instead, she’s house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own.
“I’m financially self-sufficient enough to do these things myself,” said Vorlicek, a Boston-based accountant. “I’m willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who isn’t the right fit.”
She sees her plans for an independent future as making the best of a lousy situation. “I don’t want to sit here and say I’m 100% happy,” Vorlicek said. “But I feel happier just accepting my reality. It’s mentally and emotionally a sense of peace.”
American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.
“The numbers aren’t netting out,” said Daniel Cox, director of the survey center at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank. He ticked off the data points: More women than men are attending college, buying houses and focusing on their friendships and careers over dating and marriage.
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Nope
American men gave up first. Women by and large still desire marriage because marriage benefitswomen far more than it does men. Divorce also benefits women far more than men.
Which is why given modern women and what they encompass, men decide to now say no to marriage. Way too risky.
misandrist
“I don’t unnerstan, i’m from Rio Linda, is miss anthropy a bad person?”
The way out of proportion standards and increasing must-have lists of modern women are whats behind it,
The men gave up long bedore this spin they are trying to shovel.
Thats not what the women go to college for.
I thought I would never get to be a Grandma. I had resigned myself to being the coolest great aunt several kids ever had.
Then, one year, God saw fit to bring us one grandson. A few years later, he granted a second grandson. We are immensely blessed. Now, they’re 4 and 1.
I’m sure you’d be a heckuva grandpa if that family situation changes.
I still can’t believe you’re In Colorado. Are you starting to adjust to the changes?
Meanwhile, young women are focused on education, advancing their careers, and striving for real achievement.
As if motherhood wasn’t a real achievement 😱
Kind of along those lines, I watch (and read) a lot of true crime. Those white-wife black-husband relationships often result in a dead white woman.
It’s so cliche that when I realize it’s this type of marriage or relationship, I turn the channel. There’s no mystery; the husband did it.
. Kids aren’t fashion accessories.
Especially celebrity women’s trans kids.
Women, in their pursuit of Feminism, set men free and put on the very shackles they had enslaved men with. Now women don’t have a husband and are expected to work for a boss who doesn’t care about them at all.
Yet it’s the men’s fault.
Because men didn’t check their brains at the doors to the voting booths and vote for the Insanely Idiotic.
and you know this how?
In the age of hypergamic dating, women would rather organize themselves as part-time lovers of Chad and Tyrone than have somebody more average full-time.
If you can think of several circles around a central point, whose name is Chad, that is the reality of modern dating. 80% of men are largely celibate in their 20’s and many men in their 30’s don’t believe that dating at that age is worth it.
I find that chart to be accurate in my household.
Just like men and porn.
I finally found the love of my life from China, she is the cousin of one of my best friends. We have been married for a wonderful seven years. After divorcing my X, I swore that I would never get married again. My current wife and I respect each other in our traditional husband and wife relationship. After being single for 23 years, I decided that the typical American woman of today was more hassle than they were worth.
Speak for yourself friend
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