[Chickensoup]

My sons and his friends say that all the girls want men as “friends”.

No interest in the future or children.

[CorporateStepsister]

Well, a lot of the girls have been let down by their families. I can’t say I’m surprised.

The real issue here, to me, is that a lot of girls have been taught that they have to rely on themselves (and as shown by divorce statistics it’s a natural lesson) and I wonder if having to grow up too fast has a lot to do with it.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I will give them a reason. See me? No? That’s why. I LIVed and worked in NYC for years and never received a glance from one of these “girls.” I was too ugly, too short, too bald, too Jewish, too hairy, not the best dresser, dont have a 6 figure income. Even though I could carry on an intelligent conversation, you “girls” were looking for George Clooney.

Well, I was not Clooney. I met a pretty girl in a bar, and while she had no interest in me, I kept her engaged long enough to get her number and get a date. She outright told me she was humoring me and we probably wouldn’t get past drinks.

That was 25 years and two children ago.

Want some advice? Stop being superficial.

[fatima]

Yup,They don't need them.My daughter and her girlfriend are the only one’s out of their group from school that got married and had children.I see her friends posting on facebook,last were I asked them if they wanted to get married and have children and they said no.They have their dogs and want no men.My niece live’s in a Penthouse in NY.She has her own business and just turned 50.Never married,Has too much fun traveling.

[TalBlack]

My sons and his friends say that all the girls want men as “friends”.

Seems to have been the case for quite a while now. The trouble for women of this turn of mind is that when they are in their early thirties and beginning to get twinges of settling down they find that men their age are more interested in hooking up with twenty-somethings.

[Blue Ink]

“My sons and his friends say that all the girls want men as “friends”.
No interest in the future or children.”

You can explain to your son that when a girl says she wants to be “friends” with a man, she’s preempting the expectation of sex for buying her dinner.

The dating culture (as opposed to the friend culture) demands sex on the third date. No sex, no fourth date. No fourth date, no marriage.

The girls your son knows are just trying to find their way to marriage and children without having to sleep with twenty-five men to get there.

Young women created the “friend zone” as a way to spend time with men, while working around the sex-on-the-third-date-culture they were born into. Don’t hate the players; hate the game.