#608

The older I get, the more I realise, the more you improve yourself as a man, the less dating options you actually have. If you're a man, and you have a good career, and you have your own place, you're in shape, you're ambitious and successful, you kind of need someone that's special. If you met a girl and all she brought to the table was her looks and all she wanted to do was travel and party and do rich people activities, it's just not going to work out. Your lifestyles are not going to align because becoming exceptionally successful is so hard that you either require somebody in that traditional support role that just believes in you 1000% and is just grateful for whatever you can provide at the moment, or you require someone that's also in the trenches, whether that's with you or doing their own thing, and they'll just understand the realities of the grind and what it really takes. The problem is, both of these types are already rare on their own, but they also have to match your physical preferences. So yeah, as you raise your standards, you're also going to raise the standards for whom you allow into your life. And if you keep going, there's just going to be less and fewer people that are going to meet those requirements.