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At what point do women wake up one morning, roll over to the overweight, underachieving, bovine boyfriend slumbering peacefully in dreams of mediocrity, and ask:
"What am I still doing here?"
Is it when she discovers that for the duration of the relationship her man has thought that her career goals were an illusion, not an allusion?
Is it when he maintains that his job at Gamestop is not simply a career stepping-stone, but his career?
Or perhaps it is when she realizes the first few cracks and crevices in her face, her sagging boobs and butt, and the ultimate realization that her sexual stock is about to plummet like General Motors in 2008?
It seems like a simple and straightforward question, albeit one that is generally asked much later than should be. Many women don't abandon ship before it's too late, despite the telltale signs that the incarnate shortcomings of their boyfriend are an iceberg off the starboard bow of their relationship. They attempt to board a lifeboat (read: another man) as the relationship Titantic's to the bottom of the brokenhearted ocean, but the lifeboats have already disembarked.
It tends to begin with a woman dating a man who has no business being with her. We have all seen the Biggest Loser contestant, or the biggest loser, meandering hand in hand with a deliciously deadly piece of ass. While some of us are transfixed by her apple bottom, many of us are contemplating the physics and impossible geometry that enables that relationship to occur.
However, it's not always that the boyfriend is overweight.
There is the boyfriend who struggled to graduate high school, dropped out of community college citing a myriad of hollow reasons, and is now either a government official, a law enforcement agent, a scrap metal collector, or, as I had mentioned, a manager at Gamestop.
There is the boyfriend who is in the same weight and height class of Frodo Baggins. This hobbit of a man must use a stepladder to enter and exit his compensated cock truck while smoking Capri cigarettes and attempting to pick fights with everyone due to his Napoleon Syndrome.
Now, most us attempt to rationalize these mismatched relationships with common choices:
The boyfriend has a huge manhood, has money, has a huge manhood and money, or has a huge manhoodor has money.
Either could be true, but unless the woman had scouts and intelligence reports concerning the man's manhood, that general thought does not quite stick.
Concerning money: Yeah, it works that well.
It seems counterintuitive that these women are with such men. Mainly due to the fact that most women have a laundry list of prerequisites for all potential boyfriends; hell, just to let him take her out on a date.
While men tend to focus on one specificity (Boobs and Butt) women tend to focus on entire packages (401K and Health Benefits), and, from time to time, personality, sense of humor, you know, trifling details such as those.
Now, why is it that we then see these women, who had previously rejected gentleman callers due to a technicality of their laundry list, arm in arm with a man who does not fulfill one single requirement?
I haven't a clue. It's akin to why do humans dream; an unexplained mystery, a conundrum of mindboggling proportions.
It is possible that this is an offshoot of the bigger issue of Settling' the psychological surrender to the world of dating a major proponent to the reasoning behind failed marriages and unhappy relationships. Settling' is an issue that will be touched upon in future articles.
Where does this leave us?
While I believe that men are a much simpler beast to understand, the reasoning behind women's actions are generally much more complex and dynamic. There are most likely several forces fusing within women's minds which synthesize into their actions of dating men who do not hold a candle to what most would say the women deserves' or matches her list of demands. It is an equation of fluid numbers and figures that will never be made static, but that is what makes women the rollercoaster that some men simply love to ride.
