While everyone’s hellthreading about women I’ll say that a good part of the reason I’ve taken to telling guys to just suck up the age gap and date downwards is because you’re better off just taking a woman along for the ride. In talking with girls, they have a running complaint that the guys don’t seem like ‘men’ in their gut, but they can’t put into words what that means. I’ve come to suspect that the boys are getting their roles mixed up. Women want a captain, a leader, someone with strength to shelter her from the world as she builds a cute little nest underneath him.
It’s not entirely the boy’s fault. They’ve been told all their lives that they should only desire a woman who’s an “equal partner”. They end up wanting a woman who’s capable, mature, who doesn’t add stress to his life. Except when they get that strong, mature, operational woman they’re disappointed to see the way she’s put together - because she was built under the direction of retards. (This is how college grads end up single, she becomes way too set in her weird ways and tries to vie for dominance against her bfs because she’s assumed this pseudo-husband role all on her own)
I get that it’s tough and life is a whole lot going on. Adding a lady to take care of, to manage, lead, and steward in life is kind of a big ask when it seems like you can barely keep everything going all on your own. Having a mouth to feed, an aimless chick looking blankly at you whenever a decision has to be made, is a big ask.
You’ve been told that you’ll find an equal partner who’s every bit as capable as you to help you out in life. It seems daunting to accept that you’re basically 15% father to a woman who’s every bit as inept, intimidated by life, and mature as you were at 18, but that’s the kind of material that will bloom into a proper wife and mother with the right environment.
Grandpa always said the two most important traits in a wife are “malleable” and “kind”. I see little to disprove him.