Reply #170: Succcess and Failure in romantic terms...not financial.

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Not trying to say that all women want wealthy, financially successful partners... but I do stand by that most (I'll concede not all) do strongly, heavily prefer those who have dated successfully over those who have either dated unsuccessfully, or not dated much at all.

Again, if the person dates successfully and it's known, he/she generally has no trouble finding all the dates they want. Those who haven't dated successfully must have done something to scare away all the other women, or have some deep character flaw, or be a psycho stalker, so by all means run away.

Rapper Usher Raymond has slept with thousands of women who throw themselves at him. Why? Because he's such a great lover? Why is he such a great lover? Well, he's slept with thousands of women! Despite the tautology, most women would sleep with Usher before giving some regular insecure guy a chance, even though the regular guy would devote himself to her happiness, while Usher won't even remember the woman's name the next day.

You'll say the Usher women are atypical bimbos, not "real women" -- granted. It's an exaggerated example to illustrate a real-world problem that happens on a much smaller scale in offices, schools, neighborhoods, bars, etc. every day of the week, and leaves lots of men (and women) out in the cold.

Maybe I should have said "PEOPLE are like Republicans when it comes to relationships", but I think the "Rocky/Adrian" scenario is probably a lot more common than the inverse... the closest example I can think of is Julia Roberts/Lyle Lovett, but he's wildly talented and successful and famous.