no duh--but didn't she say earlier in her response that these men are more likely to want the "secretary?" so how does this corporate warrior princess go about bagging this accomplished fella?.. or go about letting him bag her?
I sat behind a woman who sounds just like the subject of the post on an airplane yesterday. She was fortyish, very corporate-looking, very slim and attractive, she might have even been a conservative (at one point, she complained about how much money the government was going to be spending to rebuild New Orleans). But she spent a good part of the trip complaining to the (unfortunate) sixtyish, married man seated next to her about how hard a time she was having finding anyone to marry. She spoke of going on a lot of dates with a lot of men she liked and thought were very nice, but apparently for some reason they never seemed to want to follow up and take the relationship further.
From what I could observe:
1) She was a motormouth. She never stopped talking and was sharing an awful lot of personal information early on with someone she had just met.
2) She apparently works in sales - and was in "sales" mode during the entire conversation. She wore me out, and I wasn't even talking to her.
3) She had just a touch of the wild-eyed, desperate, Nancy Pelosi look.
4) She apparently travels on business much of the time.
5) She sounded absolutely convinced that she still had time to have children (I seriously doubt it) - though the subtext was clear: she would have to start almost immediately with any man she chose to marry.
Any of the five is a deal-killer on a first date. If she was sharing all of this in an hour and a half with a man she had just met, how much worse would she be on a date? It's obvious what her problem is - but it's unlikely she'll be able to remedy it in time to accomplish her goal.