A friend of mine liked to read Psychology Today and would tell me stuff he read. He said men marry women like their mothers. So while they will tell the other guys in the locker room that the thin model type is pretty and they may think so, they end up going for the fatter woman like mamma. When I was a kid, my mom was thin, top-heavy, and had really good-looks. She had thought about becoming a stewardess and she probably could have back in the late 1960's when looks was important. I wasn't too picky about the top-heavy thing in a woman, but thin and really pretty seemed really important. That did seem to be something my brother went for. He used to say he wanted to marry Wonder Woman when he was little, when Linda Carter played Wonder Woman.MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑September 26th, 2023, 2:48 pmOf course it is natural for any man to be smitten with his lady. But I do wonder, at times, what on earth it is that certain men see in their wife or girlfriend. I find that a crazy amount of men just have very low standards for the women they date or marry, and it never fails to surprise me.
I ended up with an Asian woman. My mom was a stay-at-home mom when I was little. My wife is a stay-at-home mom, though she started a business in grad school that helped us survive and is working on a small business now.
I wonder if those guys who end up with homely women have homely moms. Most women are somewhere in the middle of the bell curve for looks. For those men, those women are probably attractive. And most women don't end up with the best-looking men either. Mathematically, it doesn't work out for everyone to be above average. If every man held out for above average, a lot of men would be sexless and never marry. Or the good-looking women would have to serve everyone, and that would be messed up, a world of prostitution.