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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Wow. Such clairvoyance. You know her better than I do! All those guys were as pure as the driven snow. Just misunderstood. Gamers, dweebs, freaks, miscreants, pornies, money grubbers up to their teeth in debt. You need to spend some time at a sports bar and see the “men” of today. Like when the watch on their arm dings and they get all tingly. “Someone commented on my profile.” Of course, she was living in urban squalor at the time in Dallas and that is who lives there. Out here in the hinterlands, there are men.
True.
Or what if both?
I speak for most men. This phenomenon is demonstrated socially.
https://medium.com/sexography/celibacy-is-rising-in-young-men-but-not-in-young-women-773ea4b11fba
That’s part of the ‘group think’ propaganda women are particularly susceptible to - since in general they are driven by ‘fear, feelings and group-think’ (not logic, reason or rationality).
I still can’t believe you’re In Colorado. Are you starting to adjust to the changes?
From Florida, i appreciate the scenery, and the seasonal changes. But even here western slope Colorado, some days are like living in the worst liberal part of The Villages in FL
I blame marijuana and chronic lack of water resources. And blue Californiacs. This is an Oil/Coal/Energy canceled based part of the state that’s being overrun by urban freerange chicken more wolves less hunting urban dwellers that think only you should be taking the bus everywhere while they drive..
I’ll say that I’m affected by the change. Getting old. Some of my best acquaintances here are native hispanics and Utes. And the only black (and conservative) horse person i know.
and you know this how?
Men know nothing because a man can choose to be right or happy, and if he chooses happy and is ever right, he can not gloat, or else he will never be right OR happy again
. SARCASM FROM EXPERIENCE
Men and women should view each other as equals, not as prizes. Each individual should prioritize and value their spouse above their own interests.
The current societal issue is not limited to either men or women. Rather, it is a pervasive problem of selfishness and pride that affects individuals across both genders, not just young women.
Tiffany has an occasional alias of Cynthia.
I can only imagine the stench.
My middle son made a poor choice in 2011. Divorced. He has a girlfriend. Older. Won't be producing offspring. I simply won't have the grandpa experience. I'll be 69 this year.
You’re ignorant no offense
Someone has got to say it, this has been a most enlightening and entertaining thread ☘️
Nah. Your take is wrong. The Left is attacking the role of men in society.
I have three boys
Where’s that graph on how women think and vote now
Nuff said
Unmarried women are the mothers milk of leftist wokism
It’s startling how uninformed some are about the culture battles
Few educated women want marriage anymore
I am sorry to hear that, myrddin.
Maybe the good men have largely taken themselves out of the game, knowing how neurotic so many women are. I am glad to be out of the game.
My son has 2 friends who got girls pregnant (big mistake, BIG mistake). The first one had the kid already, and when the baby daddy’s father (a longtime friend of mine) was dying of cancer last month, she refused to show him any support and literally said, “I don’t care about your father.” Me, I’d have been very tempted to have belted her and dealt with the consequences in front of a jury (but I wouldn’t have…I would just have locked her out of the apartment.
The second friend is dealing with his currently pregnant girlfriend, and today she punched him and knocked out one of his teeth. He did NOTHING to justify that treatment.
Women are incredibly entitled these days, and then wonder where the good men went, or why they date foreign women with more traditional values.
You're right; I don't know her better than you do - I know you - who didn't teach her, from the start, to select someone other than "losers".
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