See the sentence after that. You’re already married, but in today’s market, increasingly few people want to be married and have kids, women of reproductive age

See the sentence after that. You’re already married, but in today’s market, increasingly few people want to be married and have kids, women of reproductive age even less so than the average person. As a man, if that’s the goal of a relationship, unless you get very lucky, you’ll have to partner with someone who either earns less than 60% of your income, is relatively less fit than you, spends money at an unsustainable rate, hasn’t developed the social/psychological skills to be ready for kids, or some combination of these (perhaps all of them). Seemingly the only consistent way around this is to come from a wealthy family. (I’ve finally found an exceptional partner who I think I’m on a good track with, but there are still lots of compromises and issues, and I would not have found her without paying a matchmaker $5k+.) It does all seem a bit unfair, because it is, but I’ve accepted with time is that life just isn’t fair. Things were a lot more unfair for women just a few decades ago, when they routinely settled for alcoholics who beat them (and worse) just to have families.