Women aren’t waiting for men at the finish line (average age of first marriage for an American male is 29 while their highest earning years are in their 40s and 50s) but I wish they would.
When men aren’t as accomplished as they would like to be, they make horrible partners. Stingy with their energy and affection, resenting any woman who dates them for choosing a “loser,” dating a placeholder girlfriend until the dream girl comes around once he believes he can offer more, and their narcissism is off the charts to protect their ego from their feelings of inadequacy. They’re just mean and clueless and distracted.
Men don’t believe women choose to be single because men don’t choose to be single.
Being single is the default position for women. That’s why men pursue women and not the other way around. Women only shift out of their default position when a man comes along who makes them want too.
Women want men who make them not want to be single anymore. Men want women because they don’t want to be single. There is a very specific difference there.
It’s also why men can’t figure out why their attempts at shaming women into getting married don’t work.
Women want men who make being in a relationship better than being single. Companionship isn’t enough. There has to be an increase in happiness in her life when she is with a man compared to being alone, that requires active participation in building a good relationship.
If that isn’t there, she will choose to be single.
Think of it this way.
Are most women hottest in their 20’s? Probably. Are there exceptions? Margot Robbie, Ana de Armas, Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek? Monica Bellucci winning most beautiful woman in the world at 38? Yes.
Are most women most fertile in their 20’s? Also yes. There are always exceptions. Unfortunately fertility rates are down everywhere across the board. Men and women. I sadly know many girls in their young 20’s with fertility issues and men’s sperm counts are dropping.
However, the same people reminiscing on our great grandmothers who had 12 children seem to not realize they most likely started in their late teens/20’s-40’s. Fertility doesn’t end at 35.
Here’s why the obsession is weird to us girls, even the fertile and happily married ones.
Take the guy “Fit” from “Fresh & Fit” for example since they’ve been on my feed this week. Is he fit? Probably. Is he able to compete in any sport or martial arts competition with a D1 19 year old male college athlete and win? No. I’d guess he’s late 30’s and the older you get, the more you have to focus on injury prevention. You can’t recover like a 21 year old college athlete.
Are most men the most athletic in their 20’s/early 30’s? Yes. Are there Lebron James and Tom Brady’s who are the exception not the rule? Yes.
But imagine being this late 30 something year old “Fit” guy. Every time he logs in the app, he’s told by a woman “I saw 100 guys in better shape then you running down the beach in Miami” (accurate) or “You may be fit but compared to any 22 year old on scholarship, you suck.”
I’m sure he knows that. Just like every woman knows there’s some prettier, more fertile etc woman.
But men respond in different ways than women. My husband loves Dan Pena. He screams at guys and tells them to stop being losers. Now, me? I don’t want to be screamed at and told I’m nothing. I like being inspired in a positive way.
After my first baby, I couldn’t lose the last 7 lbs so I started working out with a trainer who’s trained models and women postpartum for decades.
He told me, “You look amazing. Every single supermodel I’ve trained cannot lose the last 7 lbs while breastfeeding because they’d be too skinny. You need to take care of your baby. It will come off later, don’t stress.”
That information helped me! I did get back to where I wanted to be and then got pregnant again. But the verbiage is different.
18 year old women going online hearing they completely turn into hags at 35 are not going to want to get married or like men. How could they if that’s what they get sucked into? The young ones will suffer, not the older women.
Instead of telling women you lose value at 35 or 25 or whatever age, you tell them they gain value in a different way. Maybe your 20’s are your hot era. You find the love of your life and go on adventures. Your 30’s are your confident era. You don’t care what people think.
In your 40’s, you have money, loving kids and a great marriage (whatever your goals are).
You go from ingenue to mother to sage. My grandmothers are in their 80’s. If anyone said they had no “value,” my brothers would punch them.
Because of the paths they’ve chosen, their great grandchildren are here celebrating them. They’ve lived a lifetime of meaning and purpose and the fruit of their choices live on forever.