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The Real Reason Why Educated, Financially-Thriving Women Select Jailbirds & Fast Food Workers As Romantic Interests
Chasing accomplishments instead of inner peace leads them to declare that they have sky-high standards and yet they fall for with the first man who gives them the attention they craved since girlhood.
So many ladies whom we praise as being successful, at least by society’s standards, end up dating, marrying, or having children for men who say all the right things that their absent or emotionally-dismissive fathers never told them, things that young girls who are developing their self-esteem need to hear.
Many parents are convinced that the solution to their daughter’s interest in boys is to pressure them to study hard, get good grades, and busy themselves with school and work like my parents and the parents of all my friends did. However this “brilliant” solution isn’t a solution at all. It is a band aid at best, conveniently provided to young ladies by their guardians who are harboring decades of trauma that they too are using a work addiction or some other vice to continue running away from their hurt, scared, confused younger selves.
And the generational scheme works yet again, since our society thrives from selling masses of traumatized individuals even more band aids than they could ever receive…
