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[quote=Anonymous]I didn’t read the article, but I was in a similar position.

I think it’s largely because misogynistic societal expectations that women need to tolerate poor behavior from partners. That if we expect better, we’re high maintenance, crazy, disloyal, that’s just how men are, etc. Then once marriage and especially kids arrive, we’re expected to tolerate it because divorce is bad, and we need to do what’s best “for the kids”.

So we tolerate it and are unhappy for years, until one day we just stop caring. All the love is gone. And that’s when men notice and decide to change, but it’s too late. After years of begging for our needs to be met, we’re just done. The love doesn’t come back no matter what men do to fix things.

There is also a lot of resentment because men *could* do these things all along, they just chose not to until it impacted THEM and their needs.

Whereas if we had high standards and held men to them right from the get-go, we’d either really up before marriage and/or kids, or they would understand the expectations needed to be met or the relationship would end immediately. [/quote]

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