Of course, there’s no money to be made in saying these kinds of things.
For much of human civilization, marriages were arranged by parents, usually when the children were still very young. By and large, those arranged marriages worked out just fine. Probably a higher ratio of success than today.
These advice columns depend on telling women what they want to hear. If they say what their audience DOESN’T want to hear (you’re no prize yourself), then their audience leaves.
Pastors in churches have the same problem.