Wolfpup wrote:
LePetitPrince wrote:
Girls seek 2 main things in guys:
1-Your social status
2-Your career status
I kind of suspect that about a lot of women. Which unfortunately, if true, means I'm not very desirable!
How do you explain the loads of men who aren't high up on those ladders, but have girlfriends? (And not the last-pickings kind that nobody else wanted, either.)
In Guatemala, a man's career appeared to be more important to his girlfriend and most of all to the girl's parents. This is because it was a reasonable fear that she might be miserable or even die if she married a poor man. I just don't see this same kind of thing happening with the same frequency in the USA or other countries where people don't die of starvation or lack of potable water on a regular basis. Just because there are some women who are after wealth and status doesn't mean that's what's on every woman's mind. I've refused more than a couple guys directly because of their money/career and the way that status and spending power meant so much to them. They expected me to be impressed by it, which I found gravely insulting. I care how a man meets -my- standards, not what his neighbors think of him.
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