IMHO women definitely want the $$$ but they don't want to be second fiddle to the long hours and passion for work that is required to earn those $$$. Also, the guys with $$$ know they have the pick of the crop and the high potential for being summarily dumped when a better looking ...... comes along is not an appealing potential event for most women.
Many women just want to sleep with me and use me for sex....that's all. I want a relationship. I never thought I'd ever be in this situation. I got a good profession, have a good amount of land, a house with 4000 square feet in it, have a boat and toys, and can't get a steady.....
There's got to be a country song in here somewhere...
From a woman's point of view, this research has as many holes as a sieve.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Not this gal.
Women want the Space Shuttle Commander! And they're willing to drive 950 miles non-stop wearing a diaper and carrying a steel mallet to get him!
Envy and jealousy because they're hard to get?
Or, just spitefulness and brainlessness?
Notice the one constant, though: good looking.
I guess if you're average, it doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor.
How much did this study cost us?
Just skimming through the posts slamming women on the first page of comments make me not want to read any further.
I never tried to present myself as anything other than who I was. My marketing message to women was "what you see today is what you'll see everyday". Perhaps that is a message that runs fundamentally against nature. I don't know. I really rejected the notion of putting ones best foot foreward as I didn't want to deceive her into thinking I was something I wasn't. While I love my wife and children, there were several others who I thought were my dream come true only to wake up to the sounds of sirens going by in the night.
Nothing ever worked out and I have little idea why. Women can speak of jerks but the number of times I was stood up on a date and the resulting pain I can't count. I tried to be kind, supportive, encouraging and trustworthy in every respect only to repeatedly suffer the anguish of having who I thought was "Mrs Right" fall for someone else who always put his best foot foreward and more times than not had loser tatooed across his forehead.
Interestingly enough, after falling for someone else, every one of them became uncomfortably warm and irritatingly friendly after they got married... and subsequently divorced. I actually stay in contact (somewhat resentfully) with most but am not sure why. They do nothing for me and it's me who has to help them. Perhaps in my mind, I wish i could get in a time capsule and go back.
There is no chance of me being unfaithfull to my wife but there were others in the past who I had far, far stronger feelings for. So, say I settled for my wife. Perhaps i did but it doesn't change the fact that my promise to her was until "death do us part". Of course, it takes two to tango and if they didn't want to dance, what was there to do? The call for last dance was years ago.
I'm sure some will try to psychoanalyze me and have at it.
I think the key here is that they were evaluating for a *long-term* relationship. Any man who is good-looking, high status, and rich is much more likely to dump you when someone better comes along, than someone who is still quite acceptable but not both gorgeous and rich. It's been a long time since I was looking, but back in the day, it quickly became apparent that the combo of gorgeous + rich was not a good one. Men who were both were inevitably quite full of themselves.
You can't walk on him if he's too perfect. They need somebody with a few 'holes' in him so they can rip some more.
Wherever possible, marry your second wife first.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Actually, I think that goes both ways, men sometimes shun women who have it all, too.
So that's why they shun me!
LOL! The responses on this thread are hilarious. You can definitely tell the guys who a) are divorced, and/or b) can't get a date to save their lives.
I call BS. You could be an 5'2", 300lb., axe-murdering mutant with bad hair, chronic halitosis, and a micro-penis. But if you have enough money, 10's will flock to you like drunks to a karaoke mic.