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> Being emotionally available My dad taught me boys do the opposite. My schoolmates told me that emotions were not for boys. I'm pretty sure I'm not a unique s
by dsign 2y ago
> Being emotionally available
My dad taught me boys do the opposite. My schoolmates told me that emotions were not for boys. I'm pretty sure I'm not a unique snowflake.
> participating in chores
Dad said that boys don't do domestic chores. If a couple lives inside an apartment, all chores are domestic.
> providing a comfortable lifestyle while not working all the time
Jesus, this is not exactly trivial for most of us.
> being reasonably well-read
Very few of my friends, family and acquaintances are well-read. I'm pretty sure they don't even know what table stakes are. But it's not a hard requirement, they have kids anyway.
> good conversationalist
Not a trivial thing either. Incidentally, being well-read doesn't help if your partner is not, or if your partner is onto serious books and you like to read horny gay romps.
- mikhael28 2y agoWell, I guess don’t move to the big city and try to settle down with an IG baddie? I appreciate the fact that people like this exist, everywhere, in large quantities. But that means that the dating market, in some places, have decided there is no product market fit. Very HN statement. Now, the options are - rebrand, or move to new market, or government regulation to provide ‘protectionist’ tariffs and trade barriers to promote ‘homegrown industries’. I prefer the free market, but I can understand why the West Virginia coal miners want the government to bail them out. I’m not sure what to do about this state of events at all.
- 9dev 2y agoYou nailed that metaphor. To the very end.