Settling for Mr. Good-Enough
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Settling for Mr. Good-Enough
| Sun, 02-10-2008 - 9:10pm |
Essay in The Atlantic Monthly magazine
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/single-marry
Rather overlong and self-indulgent, but I think the author has a point. People have standards that are too high, no?

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Entitlement and expectations go a long way into feeding the hysteria of settling. Settling comes from a core belief of 'not deserving' and ' not existing' - good men exist in all walks of life - and there are many good men available for any woman - but if she has some fanatsy image of what he should be like, then she won't and can't 'see' what is right there before her.
As the saying goes - look for beauty, you won't find love. Look for love and you always find beauty.
Toni
Toni
No woman should use a man to validate herself as a human being.
"there are many good men available for any woman" ----> I hope you are right because I hope to reenter the dating world eventually.
Interesting, to say the least.
Fully less than half of all marriages in this country fail for one reason or another.
This will continue to be the case so long as the majority sex feels it their right
to have the minority change their lifestyle, solely to suit their wishes.
MOO
Majority = women
Minority = men
At least according to the latest census figures.
Depends on which age group you are looking at.
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