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The other day, I was watching one of the more interesting and brutally realistic movies that I have seen in the past few years. The movie was Blue Valentine , and it chronicles the inevitable demise of a relationship that should have never formed to begin with. While there are many fascinating aspects of this movie that I would love to break down and analyze, today I would like to focus on what I believe to be the most interesting quote of the movie.
I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married we marry, like one girl, 'cause we're resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think, I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl she's so great. But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best option... 'Oh he's got a good job.' I mean they spend their whole life looking for Prince sedona bed and breakfasts Charming and then they marry the guy who's got a good job and is gonna stick around.
As I heard Ryan Gosling's character utter these words for the first time, a grin slowly formed on my face. I had an instant flashback to the hundreds of times in my life I have heard women say to their female sedona bed and breakfasts friends, "Well, he's nice. And he has a good job. I guess go out with him again." One year later, cue the wedding bells.
Call me crazy, but I am a big believer that a romantic spark should sedona bed and breakfasts be felt instantly and powerfully. There is nothing romantic about a less than overwhelming date eventually turning into a marriage.
As I began to zone into my own little private world, as I often do while watching movies, I started thinking to myself just how much truth this Blue Valentine sedona bed and breakfasts quote seems to hold. Let's start with examining the human nature of men. No matter how culturally sedona bed and breakfasts conditioned men are to believe that marriage is the natural path, our bodies are counter-intuitively programmed to seek out as many partners as we can find . It isn't that our nature wants us to be sleazy, hurtful sedona bed and breakfasts people. Its nature's way of ensuring that we survive as a species. We may not act on these urges, but they will always be there. sedona bed and breakfasts Any man that tries to convince a woman otherwise is blatantly lying.
sedona bed and breakfasts But what happens when those of us who are not lonely, and do indeed have options, find that perfect woman? We give up all of our natural urges and try to fight them for the rest of our lives so that we can be with this woman, because we know she is the one, we will never find better and the reward of being with this person outweighs the sacrifice.
Now that is romantic. This notion is more romantic than bringing flowers home on a Friday afternoon, sedona bed and breakfasts remembering to buy a forced Valentine's Day gift or recalling some small insignificant detail of an anniversary that was spent years ago together. (Something I discussed with matchmaker Neely Steinberg in our last debate .) There is nothing more romantic than sacrificing ones human nature for the person he loves.
Now lets bring the conversation back to the choices that women make. As the quote points out, many women spend their entire lives looking for "the one," only to settle for someone who is merely good to them, or for someone who can provide as they get older in age. I suspect that many women reading this article have done so, although they would probably not admit this to themselves. sedona bed and breakfasts Before elaborating any further, let me be clear. sedona bed and breakfasts I am not saying that women who settle down with men who are good to them and provide for them are not happy. I'm not saying that their husbands are not great guys. I'm not even saying that these couples sedona bed and breakfasts are not in love with each other.
sedona bed and breakfasts My skeptical side says that most women do not wait out the arrival of their "soul mate." sedona bed and breakfasts I would hypothesize that much of this likely has to do with fear of the aging process. An age is reached where the woman begins to tell herself some variation of "Well, I am getting sedona bed and breakfasts older, I may never find exactly what I am looking for, and all my friends are already married which is kind of depressing, sedona bed and breakfasts so let's give this a shot." In addition, the deadly sound of the biological sedona bed and breakfasts clock ticks grows louder and louder in the background with every year that passes by, making the fear grows even stronger. Fear eventually takes priority over true romance.
Which raises the question as to whether or not waiting for the right guy is worth playing Russian roulette sedona bed and breakfasts with the possibly of never having a family. These are life-altering decisions that force many women to "settle" as opposed to waiting for "the one." I can't say I necessarily blame women for going down the path of settling.
Regardless of whether or not endlessly waiting for the right guy to walk into one's life is the right or wrong decision, there is nothing very romantic about women who settle for men that are "good to them," "have nice jobs" and "won't ever leave." It may be nice. It may be sweet. It may even result in love. ut when it comes to romance, us men win the overall battle.
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Should sedona bed and breakfasts the premise of your article be that men are more romantic than women or rather women will marry men that they don't really love as long as they have money, or they think will be a great father, or will take care of them, or that they can train/shape/mold/browbeat into something they want instead of who the guy really is?
Excellent, but we can aspire to Perfect. A man's vision of romance is a woman being happy that HE gives her flowers. A woman's vision of romance is some other guy, that she is happy to get flowers from.
My personal belief is that we can come very close. Few of us are across-the-bar perfect matches with mates because, well, life is imperfect and so are we humans. I'm OK with that. But we can nail it on the emotional bondedness by being choosy.
I DO think the biological clock leads some women to settle for Mr. Adequate instead of keeping up the search for Mr. One. I witnessed this first hand in my younger sister, who married a man she didn't love and wasn't attracted sedona bed and breakfasts to and who has had a terrible time with unhappiness since that day. This is the type of marriage they're now modeling for my nephew, which is why he's increasingly spending more time with us at our house.
It's embarrassing to me to say this, but I've known countless women who've settled like this. This breaks my heart for them because it indicates they weren't true to themselves. But more than anything, as a man-loving/respecting mom, wife, sister, daughter and best friend of men, it breaks my heart for guys. This shouldn't be happening to y'all.
It seems men are only romantic when they want to get the girl, but once they have her, they sit on the couch and never move. It is like they think, "well I got her, she is mine and I can move on now." The romance slips, and basically all you end up doing together is having sex, and that goes eventually because the man thinks that is all a marriage needs. Just my humble opinion.
This is very true and something I actually plan on writing an article sedona bed and breakfasts on in the future.. But agreed, it is definitely a huge problem, which usually results in everything sedona bed and breakfasts else in the relationship crumbling
Keep in mind in your article that if being romantic more often "worked" in getting the man more sex, then a la Pavlovian behavior, the man would be romantic sedona bed and breakfasts more often. I repeat this here again in hopes that it will help you remember when you write it: the ONLY reason men stopped being romantic is because it went unrewarded by women. Which means the women didn't want it.
Yes, very much more romantic, sedona bed and breakfasts and yes they've done the studies. Almost all men in long term relationships knew she was going to be the one; most women in long terms relationships still are not sure if he ever was.
I will say, though, you will be dismissed or attacked for your embrace of biology and evolution and their OBVIOUS correlation to human behavior. It conflicts with the notion that all gendered behavior is the result of the patriarchy.
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