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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TOXIC FEMININITY!
(under the table)
And re-looking, I see a BIG picture of a cat over the bed!
Yes, exactly.
“Promiscuity and happyness tend to be immiscible.”
She probably has saber-toothed crotch crickets!
And look at all the cuddly stuffed toys she has accumulated!
——relationship coach——
A woman with a relationship coach is prima fascia a failure
Interesting comments/discussion. From a simpler time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0XgNfc7qQ
To 1963...
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
https://www.dtss.us/blog/the-communist-takeover-of-america-45-declared-goals/
To 1973...
1 Corinthians 14:34
Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.
1 Timothy 2:8–14
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
Wealth, Status, and Power...
As addictive as Cocaine, but never satisfying,
Moar and Moar needed, until one is destroyed
......On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
Kipling
““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.”
Have I got a deal for you..
...They use the word power a lot.
...I give up all my power to my wife, and she to me
All that I am
All that I have
All that I will be, is yours
For as long as we both shall be
Are not just pretty words
I’m a girl. what I see that the picture Is supposed to signify is an independent, feminine, smart, successful woman.
What it actually signifies to me is an unladylike stripper dominatrix pushed dame who would have her scrawny boyfriend pay up- her terms- if he didn’t have a dozen red roses delivered to her work desk on some special day in her life.
She’s looking in the mirror wondering why others don’t find her as attractive as she does.
I see a girl like that and I steer clear. She might kick me with those platform stillettos if I turn up my nose Which I can’t help but do b
Me, too. She doesn't look at all like the women I expect to be having this issue. She seems to be contemplating her teddy bear collection, not a mirror or a phone or a laptop. She looks college-aged or younger. That full head of long hair being the dead giveaway. By the time women are in the workforce, those locks have been sheared down to the neck or mid-shoulders length.
The Buddhists are right about our desires and attachments
The solution? Marry earlier. Approach marriage as a partnership to build a life and family, not as a trophy to mark achievement of another status goal.
Translation: she got into relationships with men who were fine with having her around as long as it meant "no strings" sex, but who were uninterested in actually marrying her.
Women may understand this reality intellectually, but not emotionally: they need to spend their youthful years looking for a man who will actually be interested in marriage, not in engaging in "Sex and the City" fantasies. Women keep getting into relationships with men who are "out of their league", but who are willing to keep them around fox sex, until a woman they like better comes along.
You’re “successful” because you’ve busted balls to get to the top. You’re convinced that all men are obstacles to your continued success. So is it any surprise that no man wants to venture into that mine field?
Most men are looking for a partner, not a boss.
Oh. Yeah. And then there’s the sleeping around factor
Hypergamy.
It really isn’t complicated.
When I see these types of articles I always think about Kinky Friedman’s great line: “If women didn’t have vaginas, men would never talk to them”.
Until ‘successful’ women learn it’s about CHARACTER, not wealth, these things will keep happening. MARRY DOWN dummies! Too highly successful people have one very big issue . . . which one checks their ego at the door when they get home and it’s necessary to do so? Neither are used to not getting their way.
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