Certain males view interpersonal romantic relationships as a game where once their quarry has been successfully pursued and wooed, they sooner or later want to move on to the next woman. This strategy, steeped in egotism, will work for a good long time until the late forties/early fifties. Then it starts to look pathetic to outsiders and ultimately leaves the men who follow it without real relationships and connections. They will face old age alone or with women who only value them in terms of their status or financial wherewithal.
An older middle age man continuing to pursue younger women, and ultimately prevailing with those women, will miss all the really important things that a long-term stable relationship can offer. There will be no one to remininsce with, no one to share generational in-jokes, no one to genuinely appreciate the personality that emerges after long term knowledge and commitment. In old age, often there will simply be no one who cares for or about them.
This may be cold comfort for the women who did care and were "dumped" along the way. However, in the long run, they will be better off because they are free to find a man who genuinely appreciates them with whom they can develop a committed realtionship. So to all the Peter Pan/Don Juans out there, just remember, you will in all likelihood end up with the person you love the most, youself.
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