The Dating Game: a guide for girls
by: Sam Stynes
FINDING a partner in life can be frustrating, confusing and downright deflating. Sam Stynes explores what men really think about it.
THE dating game is reaching a point of crisis as it becomes more disappointing, time-consuming and often painful.
Unmarried women now outnumber married women in Australia.
The urban supply of men is so limited that women are looking to rural mining towns and considering a life on the land like their TV heroines on A Farmer Wants a Wife.
We hear a lot about the “man drought” or the shortage of good men, which is the usual lament for women in their 30s who can’t connect with a man.
But the tide is starting to turn as more men speak up about what they want and why dating is just as frustrating for them as it is for the more vocal other half.
Questions are being raised as to whether the chasm between men and women is really a statistical and geographical problem or a cultural and social issue.
According to the statistics, there should be plenty of women out there for men to date, yet there are still a lot of bachelors – many of them eligible – living next door, or not a million miles away.
It is not only women who like to moan about being single and wonder whether they will ever find their Mr Right.
Perhaps men and women have unrealistic ideals or are being driven by fear of being alone and childless.
After speaking candidly with many single men on this topic, I devised some categories to help single girls navigate their way through the dating game and question their responses.
Basically, girls, all single guys really want is to meet a confident, sassy girl who sparks their imagination so they can wonder “Who is this girl?” and pursue a serious relationship.
Men don’t want to grow old alone either.
