Funny you mentioned that. The “girls” (not women) who didn’t see the value in a more mature, conscientious, caring person would eventual be looking for exactly that 10 years later, that is if she had even half a brain in her head at that point. From my observation over the past +40 years of adulthood, a lot don’t and a lot never grow up (mature). So, we have 50% divorce rates, shacking up more than ever, out of control abortions, illegitimate children by the bushel full and lastly, STD’s that help contribute to sterility and some now becoming incurable. So much for “bad boys” and “bad girls” behavior as knowing what the other really wants. It’s called rutting in the animal world. Ideally, we’re supposed to be above that. However, some of society’s ills are reflected in this kind of poor judgment and immaturity, there’s plenty of others too. We’re practically scraping bottom, or will soon.
I know a lot of wholesome young college-age women who want decent, caring relationships, including a strong element of friendship, with the opposite sex. It’s often struck me that many of them are more down-to-earth than my ‘60s-’70s young adult generation was, and have much more honest and natural relationships with young men.
Good post. Agree with you. TBTG all my children escaped that phenomenon so grandkids all have stable, intact, biological families.
There are millions of women who live their chaotic lives starring in the soap operas in their heads. Their children are to be pitied as a string of worthless bums sleep in her bed. By the grace of God, some of them turn out to be normal, emotionally healthy adults, but the majority repeat the sad, ruinous pattern they saw in their childhood.