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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, married guy here.  I've also set up several friends and acquaintances.  Here's my take on the issue.

Most men are willing to date anyone regardless of socioeconomic status.  I've known high ranking corporate men who date and marry low totem-pole hourly workers, or unemployed women, women with children, etc.  Most of the women that I know are looking up, they want someone who makes more money than them, the professional women will only date/marry professional men, etc.  The higher income/socioeconomic men have their choice of women and choose from across the spectrum.  The higher income/socioeconomic women restrict themselves to the small upper tier of men, many of whom are already spoken for.

The single professional women I know who have been most successful at finding partners were the ones willing to ignore SE status.  I had a guy who worked for me who married his professional, corporate management wife when he was a construction worker without a college degree.  After physical injuries that prevented him from working in construction, he went back and got a computer technician certification and ended up coming to work for me in his 50's as a computer tech.  They were quite happily married.  I know quite a number of late-in-life paired couples where the wife makes more money and is more successful career-wise than the husband.  And they have happy marriages.

So, from a slightly different perspective, I echo those who say to stop with the 587 line check-list of everything that a guy must have to be husband-material and just look for honest hard-working guys.  You can find them at sports bars, sporting events, outdoor physical activities (running in races, biking with the local bike group, hiking in state parks, playing in the weekend sports leagues, etc).  [b]You will not find them at the opera, theater, high-end bars, book clubs, etc.[/b]  Look, I'm a theater reviewer and performer, but I know that you aren't going to find a ton of single and available heterosexual men attending these events.[/quote]

Don't laugh but a male friend of mine joined a group that watches symphonies and theater.  One of the few guys there and he cleaned up - he had no shortage of women to date from this.  He was actually a big sports fan but getting a dose of culture was good for him.  I tell single guys I know to join book clubs.  Women like men with a brain.[/quote]

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