Love Bites the Big Hard One

Sophia Loren famously said, "Every woman deserves the man she's living with!" This may have been in response to the many women who complain about their relationships. Depending on the nature of the "bad" relationship (is he alcoholic, an abuser, lazy, etc,), women who remain in a bad situation deserve it. If on the other hand she is just "tired of him", then the problem could be her's and maybe the guy should leave.

The truth is, life is never what we want, no matter what we get and have. Although the personals and online dating bios indicate that men want "pretty little things" and women want a "Gold Card", it hardly ever happens.

Do most men end up with young, pretty women? No, people tend to marry mates close to their same age. That's why those rich old guy/young buxom babe marriages are always in the tabloids, because they are so unusual.

And do women always end up with hard working older men? No. Women marry guys their own age and social status and end up working just as hard as men to support a family.

No matter what we might say to researchers, the truth is we all end up mating with people who are interested in us, people we run into, people who happen to look our way. And our "choices," more often than not, make no sense at all.

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