Good posts.
My only quibble is that the women who decide it is time to “settle” often have negative personalities at that point since they are now “Alpha widows”—and many do not have the intelligence or the ability to hide it. They are easy to spot—they rarely smile or express true happiness with anything. It is depressing to be around them.
The extreme version of this is a woman I know who was young, attractive and dated Alphas in college.
She realized she had to “settle” in her late twenties and got married to a Beta.
Ten years later she divorced the Beta—just got tired of a guy she never really loved in the first place. He never had a clue what her issue was.
She became depressed and gained lots of weight at that point (around forty) and men avoided her.
A few years later she killed herself.
That's why I talk about the importance of being sure the woman loves and admires you before marrying her, to avoid the situation of marrying someone who doesn't care about you, who is just "settling" to avoid being alone or because she wants financial support.