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From: carson@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: More women than men (shortage for all...)
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 08:44:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 08:44:48 1985
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Two reasons that there's a shortage of "appropriate" MOTAS for those
of us over 30:
(1) Since a higher percentage ARE married (or equivalent), a lower 
    fraction of the people you casually interact with (at say volleyball
    or square dancing, as opposed to arranged-for-singles activities)
    are gonna be unattached....more chaff for the wheat (Note: this is
    not to say I don't have time to have fun with attached guys -- I
    do (one benefit being that I often meet nifty women this way), but
    there is a potential "pay-off" lacking...)
(2) People over 30 have had more time to develop "personality" 
    (Eccentricity, like a gas, expands to fit available space...:-)
    Anyhow, there are all the things like what he wants to eat, what
    he wants to do for recreation, what sort of house he wants to keep,
    etc...that are thoroughly enough formed that it takes more effort
    to figure out how to LIVE together (Marrying at 25 is no guarantee
    that your habits will evolve similarly -- but at least you have a
    "target")...Like, what do you do when the most attractive man
    you've run into lately loves sailing and you just get seasick....
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