The relationship recession is going global

Post by portaouflop » Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 12:55 PM UTC

MattPalmer1086 wrote: post #82

portaouflop wrote: post #75

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The pressure to produce more humans was mostly to fuel the armies that need constant supply of young people to throw into the meat grinder; at least in the past centuries in Europe

You really think people chose to have children and raised them to satisfy military requirements? While it may be sadly true that many young people died like that, that isn't why men and women have children.

Post by bradlys » Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 3:48 PM UTC

mike_hearn wrote: post #90

bradlys wrote: post #77

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> Finding beautiful women on the arm of a man who is old or unattractive man is easy, if he has other attributes women like more. Only seen this with gold diggers. I’ve never seen this in any other circumstance. It’s well accepted that modern couples are mostly paired off by their looks. You’re not seeing models with average looking guys unless she’s trying to escape poverty - which means she’s not with you but with…

Yes I know about the psychology papers that you're referring to, and wealth can be one of those attributes, but there are many others and it wasn't that in this case. She certainly did not need to escape poverty.

Post by bradlys » Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 11:09 PM UTC

orwin wrote: post #94

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> Right now, the biggest issue my sister have is how pushy men are with her, not 'commitment'. I think it's a bit of both. I don't think a lot of women would care about the pushiness if it was with high commitment. It's a lack of commitment and pushiness that is what is uninteresting. I'm not finding any lack of women who love to completely go nuts on the escalation ladder of a relationship if a guy is high commitmen…

Ok, let me rephrase this: at least among women around my age or younger who don't seems care about commitment because a relationship is like the 4th item on their "to do" list, like ones who are pursuing a PhD or those seeking to build their business, pushiness seems to be way more of an issue than commitment.

Post by mcphage » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 2:07 AM UTC

anthony_d wrote: post #58

mcphage wrote: post #53

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There was recently a spate of people getting shot (or shot at) for knocking on someone’s door, or pulling into someone’s driveway. (Someone inevitably being an older white man.) How do you develop a sense of community with people who behave that way?

Luckily most people don’t want to live like that. It’s true that people have lost a lot of their ability to socialize, but the kind of hate you’re promoting takes a lot more work. It’s tiring for everyone.