Dam. .. you hit me with a booksnrain titan graph.
That's true. The girlfriends who I had dated during that rough period were in the same boat as me but we always saw the potential in each other. Sadly it didn't work out but it goes to show there are decent women out there who don't expect the finished product at a young age.
And that's the problem. It's harder for women (especially black women) to reach the top of the mountain of their respective fields. Once they do by their mid 30s.. the dating pool of men in their age bracket is slim... especially if they're looking for men with no children and a similar salary. It's damn near impossible.
And no man in that position is going to settle down..and if I'm being brutally honest... a man in his 30s with no kids and a good salary is going to play the field for a while and more than likely settle down with a woman much younger.
Yup. I don't think there's anything wrong with a woman wanting financial security as she gets older. That's exactly what she should be seeking if she wants to start a family. The problem is.. there are a lot of women out there who want the cream of the crop but bring nothing to the table but ass and titties.
I come from a traditional family so I'm happy to be the breadwinner and have a stay at home wife. But the women I meet scoff at that idea... acting as if that's beneath them.
That's a figure I threw out there as my point. There are women I know who make that amount thinking they've made it when that's 's low managerial salary role. But to them, the title alone and having a car and own space makes them think that's success.
Go figure.
I’m in my early thirties not mid thirties. I don’t know, I don’t feel like I’ve had to climb obstacles career wise to get where I am, I went to school got my bachelor and later got my master degree. I followed my heart tbh, and got my second degree in something that people laughed at, especially since I was a single mom at the time and working full time while in school. No one thought it was worth it.
I do what I love now and what I’m good at, because I trusted in God and let him take that part of my life. I don’t even work very hard, that’s actually why I feel like it’s so important for people to really have a skill, a degree, a trade, I mean something to fall back on. Because I know people working so much harder than I ever will have to making significantly less, and the only difference between them and me is that I developed a skill that required a degree.
Anyway I can’t speak for other women that are in their early thirties but I haven’t seen a huge drop in options or difference in the quality of men in my age range, versus where it was in my mid to late twenties. If anything the men that show interest in me now, have their shyt together so much more than they did when I was younger and didn’t have my shyt together, lol.
most of the time the men are professionals like myself in the mid/late twenties to early forties range, some make in the same range or more.
I know people on here say men that are my age play the field and date younger so it gets harder but tbh that’s not been my experience. If anything it’s those men that actually be ready to jump right into shyt (at least from my experience). They are so direct and honest about what they want up front, and up until today that always scared me because I’m immature asf and intimidated by men that are on their grown man shyt ready to be serious, when I’m flakey and scary about it.
Maybe it’s the very things you scared of or try to avoid you attract? It’s a resolution of mine though to grow the fukk up emotionally, stop being destructive in 2020 and not push anyone else away. So i’ll Let you know by 2021 if once I did that, options got slimmer than a mug.
Some of my friends are struggling with men and do complain about quality—so I’m aware that it is an issue, it hasn’t been yet for me, so honestly a lot of this is my opinion based on my experiences.
As for what you said about women scoffing at the idea of a traditional marriage with a man as the breadwinner, that’s interesting. A lot of my friends would love that set up. My dad was the breadwinner and my mom was stay at home—I’m neutral on it. But I can see why a breh who desires that would scoop up a younger women to make that happen(before she’s gotten set in her career and life).