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Women have been made to believe that a “trial run” and “testing it out” makes for a better marriage. What it really does is take her off the market for 5-10 years until he decides to bail. (I know one who waited 15 and he finally did agree to marry her and they’ve been miserable ever since.)

And then she’s alone, 5-10 years older, and all her girlfriends/wingmen have paired up and moved on.

It’s also a “swipe right/left” culture now. Everyone is easily replaceable.

Last night I was in the parking lot at Trader Joe’s loading my groceries into my car and overheard a guy asking a girl out two cars over. He sounded very nice and respectful, telling her he would like to meet her for a coffee sometime. He was also kind of cute. She was alright, not any great beauty and not the type wearing yoga pants and false eyelashes. (“Im just slumming it and running errands, but I had time to put on fake lashes and beachwave my hair.”) Both were college age and granted, I didnt know what led up to the conversation (was he wandering around a parking lot asking randoms for dates?). But she turned him down, and I thought to myself, “Is she crazy? Does she not realize how rare it is for them to politely ask you out TO YOUR FACE these days???”