Geez, Mom, take a breath. In through the nose, out through the mouth.
You don't think we men are aware of the faults of our gender? Sheesh, we joke about them all the time here. Most of us freely admit to our shortcomings, and thank our lucky stars for the wonderful women who put up with us.
The question at hand, though, is, why are American men avoiding marriage? I think the men on the thread have nailed most of the primary reasons why this is happening.
Perhaps you're offended by some of the frank and candid replies here. I understand. They're mostly from men's perspectives, which are going to differ from most women's.
If you're going to yell at men for being honest, they're just going to clam up and shut you out. Same as in real life.
Her reply is the typical guilt shaming women do to men.
Men’s sexual market value peaks later than womens’. Usually around mid thirties. they are most attractive to hotter younger women because they are mature, they tend to be well off and really starting to get into earnings years, and this is when women of his same age will guiltshame the guys for lookign at younger women and say how awful it is and men should date guys their own age. When that womens’ sexual market value peaked in her early 20s she was bopping around with all the hot guys she could get and had not intention of settling down, and no one guilt shamed her for capitalizing on her peak sexual market value then.
But this is the feminine-imperative, hypergamy-reinforcing system we live under at present.