Anonymous wrote:Let’s say you believe that your mid-late 20s are the best time to meet a partner. You may disagree but let’s say for arguments sake. What are the most common mistakes women make that waste the “best” relationship-building years, and how would you advise Gen Z women to not repeat these mistakes? Or if this was you, what advice would you give your younger self?
I’ll start: I always wanted a relationship, but could not move on easily from rejection and breakup and wasted precious months moving over failed romances. I also wasted time trying to change the minds of men who just wanted casual sex. I had been exposed to too much online misogyny and believed that if I held out and proved that I was “not that kind of girl” and that I was the type you would marry, not just sleep with, instead of just ignoring the guys who had this mentality. The best advice to my 25 year old self would be to move on, and move on faster.
+1,000.
Also, I’d tell a younger version the point of waiting to have sex is not about some weird patriarchal control thing as so many spread the lie that it is, or playing games or anything. It’s to protect yourself from the immature, selfish guys who will feel not one pang of conscience after they waste your time and use your body and heart. The ones who say you’ll never find a man if you wait for that are the ones you’re *supposed to* weed out, and they’re trying to instill fear and scarcity into you (so you will sleep with them! Lol).