Women lose all leverage when they give away their cash & prizes.
Indeed. The old saw about “why buy the cow if the milk is free?” turns out to be more or less true. I personally know two childless women who wanted to be moms who wasted the tail end of their fertility (late 30s, early 40s) on dudes uninterested in marriage and children. It’s a sad thing because they lacked the courage and character to cut their losses and try to move on to someone else.