Around 2006 to 2009....I worked in an office which was mostly women, over the age of thirty-five, and single. They would come and whine to me about the terrible woes of being 35 to 45 years old, and unable to find a decent guy.
I would listen to the arguments and agree to some degree. They wanted a guy who had reasonable debt, no extreme sports attitude, no heavy drinking....it’d be a laundry list of a dozen issues. Frankly, they’d filtered out enough guys to find virtually no acceptable guys around at age thirty-five. I suggested that they ought to start looking for guys who were 25 years old and just accept a younger guy who would fit the profile, and they just laughed.
In 2010, I moved to DC for three years and found a lot of women in the same problem group there. The chief issue I think...is that the ‘bar’ has been raised and these women don’t want any immaturity or stupid problems. They also know a fair amount about debt and don’t want a guy who owes $75,000 on credit cards, or has an ex-wife that he pays $1,500 a month for alimony. I worked with one guy who was happily married, but he had a kid from a relationship 15 years prior....that he was paying child support on ($300 a month) and his wife was all peeved about this extra cost to the family budget. It’s the new world that we live in, and you to accept this stuff.
Aha! I have lived in the DC area and been in the dating scene since a 2007 divorce. I know a lot of these women. Much of their laundry lists are not realistic. Couple that with modern day liberalism/feminism, its no wonder they fail.