Being single for the last few years, I often wonder if my dating life would be easier if I was different. Maybe a little taller, different ethnicity, different interests etc . . . I enjoy the perks to being single though I won't deny being in a relationship feels good too. And though there have been opportunities, I felt that it wouldn't be honest of me to start relationships with a person if the feelings weren't there. To summarize my dating/relationship then would be best described as "messing around".
So thinking about my own challenges being single, I did as I normally do for a lot of things, I put myself in the shoes and mind frame of single women. I am sure women go through similar anxieties, if not more, as men. I caught a few episodes of the VH1 show "
Tough Love" that only made me wonder more if being a single guy is worse than being a single woman.
Factors: Initiating dates, Waiting for calls, Rejection, Age, etc . . .
So taking in different factors, strictly towards dating, who has it easier or worse, single men or single women?
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They both have their respective differences and toughness. It's really hard to say who has it worse or tougher. Namely because I've never been a guy. But I have asked guys out as I've been asked out by guys, came up with what we can do as well as him wanting to do the clichéd dinner and a movie or other things that was found to be casual and fun at the same time, etc. But that's just my point of view.
My take is that it's tough on both parties--but for different reasons. For guys, the tranditional thing to do is that THEY have to ask girls out, and hence the waiting, rejection, blah blah blah...whereas girls can just wait. But you know, guys have one advantage...namely, they have time on them. Girls have to think about the whole "OMG I'm in my twenties it's the most ideal time to have babies!" Guys don't have that...also, as guys age, they lose the boyish charm, but it's replaced by a manliness that seems to make them that much more attractive. Women can still look really good as they age, but while most guys can date much younger girls, women don't usually date younger guys...