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Hitting that big 29 today...
Have you started getting pressure to get married and settle down from family members or women you talking to?
Hitting that big 29 today...
In regards to the marriage situation, it is traditional to ask the parents first and get their blessing.

yes women love attention whether positive or negative, just like on dating sites most women dont really want to meet men they just like opening thier inbox and seeing 100 notes and knowing they still got it, that they are still attractive. It's why they will put on makeup and do thier hair just to go to the grocery store, its why they go clubbing and dress scandalously they love the attention it brings them,.

Mom wants me to have kids, but no pressure really. People wonder why I'm not married, and I just keep it real with them. Haven't found that woman I really want to take it there with yet. I'm one of the pickiest cats on the planet.
Carné Asada;4261182 said:I was on the same boat as him. I'm an Introvert who rarely approached women. Hell, women approached me more than I approached them. Then I was introduced to the online dating world and it has beenfor the first couple of years. I got on POF and I was eating left and right.
My thing is that going to clubs/bars got pretty tired. And to be fair, we stopped going to the places that were packed with hoes. We would just go to places to grab a quick drink, vent, and call it a night....and that's normally around midnight.
But the real reason why I say online > real life is you can weed out the women with kids.
look at tim duncan doesnt matter how rich you are, your personality, if you got kids picking the wrong woman is a life long decision and if you make the wrong one you will be burned
That's a perfect example of a man doing 'everything right' and still getting burned. But you will always have someone excusing the woman talking about, "Well, we don't really know what happened behind the scenes," or "he must have had a boring personality." What's crazy is she was the nice 'college sweetheart'. She wasn't even one of the 'shallow ones' he met in a bar.
As a man you have to be Cedric the Entertainer, Bill Gates, Mandingo, 2pac, TD Jakes and Sigmund Freud all wrapped in one or else you have something that can be 'the reason she cheated.'
A lot of the older generation ask me why I'm not married and I just tell them straight up what it is. I've had a few agree with me and the guy at the cologne store who I'm friends with actually told me that my generation of women is nowhere near his.
The thing is as well I can easily be married and committed till the day indie and work through then ups and downs but can I find a woman who week ll do the same?
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That's a perfect example of a man doing 'everything right' and still getting burned. But you will always have someone excusing the woman talking about, "Well, we don't really know what happened behind the scenes," or "he must have had a boring personality." What's crazy is she was the nice 'college sweetheart'. She wasn't even one of the 'shallow ones' he met in a bar.
As a man you have to be Cedric the Entertainer, Bill Gates, Mandingo, 2pac, TD Jakes and Sigmund Freud all wrapped in one or else you have something that can be 'the reason she cheated.'
A lot of the older generation ask me why I'm not married and I just tell them straight up what it is. I've had a few agree with me and the guy at the cologne store who I'm friends with actually told me that my generation of women is nowhere near his.

its sad, but Im starting to think its almost the mens fault for this. we overlook this girl being boring, attention hungry, and a general emptiness of her character, because we're too busy trying to get their affection for us by any means. men have been told taht you need to get htis and that, in order to get the "prize" of a womans company. so many women are dependant on what we give to them, that men can tend to view our own self worth on what WOMEN think.
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men tend to look at what WE bring to a woman, and rarely the other way around. we're too busy trying to be everything for her to even really look at her benefits. instead of examining her, and seeing what she REALLY brings to the table, we're playing ourselves out for a relationship thats selfish and more slanted to her side from the get go.
from us thinking we NEED to get our social status up high, getting the expensive car, the clothes right, spending money on her like she deserves it etc just so that we can impress her ... we're only focusing on what we can do for her. if we saw ahead of time that she bores you, you cant find out what it is that she does to make up for what you do for her, she doesnt show effort for the relationsip and does not put energy into you, THEN you can see if shes really about that life or is just fronting so she can ge all she can from you.
After reading that Tim Duncan thread, I'm really doubting marriage. How it works, the principle behind it, even the purpose. I've always wondered why it was ok and encouraged for a woman to marry up, in regards to income, social status and even lifestyles. But in the same notion, a man must marry down and be comfortable with it because he's essentially the bread winner and he has to love his wife for what she brings to the table. This same wife who is several notches below the potential husband, can be as picky as they come. Even though she doesn't make as much, she doesn't come from a similar background. All that is thrown out the window because of her "potential" to be a good mother and wife. I'm sorry but none of it makes any sense.