Posted on 10/11/2019 4:52:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Successful women face special barriers in love and marriage, according to one relationship coach. But that doesn’t mean they can’t still strive for a happily ever after.
On October 9, the Washington Examiner published an opinion piece on, “Why super-successful women struggle in love.” Relationship expert and author Suzanne Venker claimed that “few, if any, women” can have both “power in the world” and “power in bed.” While she backed up her arguments, her piece left something to be desired by women: encouragement.
Venker began by referencing a Wall Street Journal piece, arguing that “As women have become more and more rich, love has indeed become more and more elusive.”
She pointed to an email about one of the women dealing with this very problem – written by the woman’s mother.
“I’d like to talk to you about my daughter who’s a high achiever,” the mom began. “She’s a thirty-eight-year-old, well-educated (two Ivy League schools), creative, intelligent, sophisticated, loving, successful, attractive, with a model-like body, and surprisingly can’t find a desired partner.”
While previously “she wasted many years on several senseless relationships,” her daughter is “extremely unhappy that she doesn’t have a partner,” or children.
In response, Venker urged that not only do successful single women struggle, but also women who serve as the primary breadwinner. There are many reasons why “love becomes a struggle the more successful women become,” she said, including the “pursuit of a post-secondary education and career.”
“Jumping in full throttle and making work the center of one’s life, as young women are encouraged to do, invariably means this group will be unable to take advantage of their greatest marital bargaining power,” she said.
That main “bargaining power” appeared to be beauty.
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Beauty may may be in the eye of the beholder, and the freshness of youthfull ladies just over 18 to their mid-20s may be very alluring, and their muscles and toning may be better than the woman in her mid-30s, but there is something about the overall beauty of a woman in her early to mid-30s that I think is the height of beauty in a woman. There is just something to the entire package that I find more attractive than the capriciousness of the younger girls. True, it is harder to stay fid in your mid-30s, but I would never expect a woman 36 years old to have the shape and toning of an 198 year old. And it isn’t needed.
Look at movies today. Back in the 30s and 40s there were boatloads of beautiful glamorous actresses in their early 30s or older, and they just beamed on the silver screen. It only seems since the 80s or so that we have gone to where the ideal of female attractiveness is the slender 18 year old. I beg to differ. The 30’s and 40’s had it right.
When we were ‘young’; if you were told your blind date had an amazing personality; you had to be held from bolting for the door!
Now; being ‘not’ young; I am SO glad I DO have a woman with an amazing personality.
100 pounds over weight (she said it; not me) put’s up with MY crap (Well; until ‘that’ point is finally reached), and is my best friend.
It wasn’t until I saw the movie Shallow Hal that I saw myself; and I didn’t like me.
I started looking on the inside and accepting what was on the outside; and I was given a wonderful woman with which to spend the rest of my days.
Praise GOD!
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