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American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage
The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 21, 2025 | Rachel Wolfe

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Society
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To: MinorityRepublican

Men have no problem at all marrying women with less education and who earn less than they do. Women by contrast, often will not accept that in a partner.


181 posted on 03/24/2025 8:22:54 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: packagingguy

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-54840971


182 posted on 03/24/2025 8:24:46 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I received a 404 blank page when using the link. I searched on the article title - this link works.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-54840971


183 posted on 03/24/2025 8:25:29 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: MinorityRepublican

No paywall at this link:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/family-and-relationships/single-life/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage/ar-AA1Bq81R


184 posted on 03/24/2025 8:26:12 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: packagingguy

No paywall at this link:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/family-and-relationships/single-life/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage/ar-AA1Bq81R


185 posted on 03/24/2025 8:26:36 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: T.B. Yoits
Well, bless your heart Dr. Phil.


186 posted on 03/24/2025 8:27:01 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: drSteve78

Sigh. I found it troubling. I think it is pretty accurate.

Thank God for Conservative women. I would be somewhat disillusioned, otherwise.


187 posted on 03/24/2025 8:29:24 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: T.B. Yoits

You know that ridiculous chart was created by a tranny since they made themselves the ultimate male fantasy.


188 posted on 03/24/2025 8:33:58 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (God moved David to STAND UP to Goliath ❣)
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To: wjcsux

What I have observed is that young women are trained in school to believe that they are superior to men and they expect to be girrrrl bosses. Men are stupid and worthless except as sperm donors. Guys are figuring this out and are avoiding these toxic females. It is another facet of divide and conquer initiated by the toxic Kenyan in 2008.


189 posted on 03/24/2025 8:35:22 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: drSteve78

*** overrun by urban freerange chicken more wolves less hunting urban dwellers that think only you should be taking the bus everywhere while they drive***

Now that’s a mouthful! Having said that, I think I get the picture.

People think the Midwest is flat and boring, but we have our spots of beauty, and fewer of the types you mentioned, so it works for me. As long as I get to see the family now and again, and the Gulf beaches, I can survive here just fine.

Good catching up a bit, though it sounds like not much has changed on your end. I will keep you in my prayers.


190 posted on 03/24/2025 8:45:04 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: TianaHighrider
Re: Hot-Crazy Matrix

That "ridiculous" chart wasn't created by a tranny "making themselves the ultimate male fantasy".

Here's a link to the original YouTube video lesson from Dana McLendon. This 5-minute lecture should be mandatory for all men, starting in junior high school. At 4:45 in the video he tells of warning someone he knew that the "chick" who was below a Four on the Crazy Axis was likely a dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jHTGNPOYGQ

The chart doesn't stand alone and needs to have footnotes such as "At any moment in time, any woman you have located on this chart can vanish from that location and appear anywhere else on the chart."

191 posted on 03/24/2025 8:46:59 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MinorityRepublican

Christian woman are still doing this; the non-Christian woman are not actually marriage material. Let the women of the world die out. Those faithful will follow God.


192 posted on 03/24/2025 8:47:42 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: MinorityRepublican

My dtr had a baby shower..quite the miracle since she was told as a teenager she could not have children...but after 14yrs of marriage..she got pregnant...but it was so sad..many of her 30 something friends wer3 single and planning on saving their eggs out of desperation,,all the girls were pretty and educated and nice....something is very wrong out 5here.


193 posted on 03/24/2025 8:52:31 PM PDT by cherry
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To: MinorityRepublican

SK is the most extreme case in the world. An over value on education and a lack of jobs two wage earners together can afford a home or family....


194 posted on 03/24/2025 8:55:33 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: MinorityRepublican

BINGO.


195 posted on 03/24/2025 8:56:09 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: MinorityRepublican
When a lot of us were in school, they taught the girls "Home Economics": sewing,
cooking, housekeeping, budgeting. It prepared young ladies for marriage, and family, and kids.

196 posted on 03/24/2025 9:00:48 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Kate not cake. Has to do with a popular US movie after WWII. But are essentially correct... without the Jeudo Christian hangups, they freely engage in the “if it feels good it’s ok” aspect of their tradition culture. Sex is just a part of a good date, not love or feelings.


197 posted on 03/24/2025 9:02:13 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: rlmorel

As bad as that is, I wonder what the under 30 results are.


198 posted on 03/24/2025 9:02:38 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: T.B. Yoits
There is something to be said for Truth In Advertising.

"Seether" by Veruca Salt (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC9AUR-iTo0&list=RDjC9AUR-iTo0&start_radio=1

Ow!

Seether is neither loose nor tight
Seether is neither black nor white

I tried to keep her on a short leash
I tried to calm her down
I tried to ram her into the ground, yeah

Can't fight the seether
Can't fight the seether
Can't fight the seether
I can't see her 'til I'm foaming at the mouth

Seether is neither big nor small
Seether is the center of it all

I tried to rock her in my cradle
I tried to knock her out
I tried to cram her back in my mouth, yeah

Can't fight the seether (Seether)
Can't fight the seether (Seether)
Can't fight the seether
I can't see her 'til I'm foaming at the mouth

Keep her down, boiling water
Keep her down, what a lovely daughter
Oh, she is not born like other girls
But I know how to conceive her
Oh, she may not look like other girls
But she's a snarl-toothed seether, seether!

Can't fight the seether (Seether)
Can't fight the seether (Seether)
Can't fight the seether
I can't see her 'til I'm foaming at the mouth

Seether
Can't fight the seether
Seether
Can't fight the seether
Seether
Can't fight the seether
I can't see her till I'm foaming at the mouth, yeah

199 posted on 03/24/2025 9:03:41 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: central_va

The babies won’t live happily ever after.


200 posted on 03/24/2025 9:04:35 PM PDT by alternatives?
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