SW15
Master Don Juan
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Bringing women to social functions is so overrated. In my 20s and the very beginning of my 30s, I used to think to having a woman to bring to social functions was important. As my friends started marrying off, I started getting invited to fewer social functions. This was happening in the few years prior to the pandemic. If you're an unmarried, unattached/marginally attached guy over 30, you'll have essentially zero social functions once all your friends marry or have multi-year relationships. Those people don't want you around dinners or larger group private residence parties.
Interesting points @HaleyBaron.There's a reason for this. The girlfriend usually is the one that gets invited or asks to join. That is the only reason the guy comes along. They do not necessarily keep you out for the thrill of it. It is simply due to the logistics of becoming an unofficial double date night [or more than that due to multi couples]. Currently my circle is having a lot of girls and guys hooking up. What is funny is that everyone never sees me bring any girls along so I am curious if they fit me into the same group as the beta singles in our friend group or if they just think I am a troublemaker. They have seen me with hot girls so I wish I knew what all the gossip was about me behind the scenes. I often have girls of this group, even in couple, flirt with me. That is nothing to brag about but I often wonder if I am kicking any interest in some of the girls' head.
I noticed the number of social functions was higher in my circle before marriages/cohabitations started. In my circle, once the marriages/cohabitations started, people started moving further away from each other and into their own isolated existences in various suburbs of the main city. Often times, the dogs and then the owned homes started to become the center of attention. Then, some people moved to other cities. A couple of people who I considered to be on the fringes of the circle had children, but long after the social functions had diminished.
As a childless, petless renter near the center of the main city, I became the countercultural guy in the circle.
Yes and no. There are times where a man will see his friends disappear to marriages/cohabitations. That man might resort to women for intelligence and conversation. I have had that happen to me but I haven't relied upon women for intelligence and conversation.A man that depends on a woman for her intelligence and conversation is a man with little friends or purpose in life.
I agree that a man needs someone else besides a woman for intelligence and conversation. If he can't get it from his male friends, he might be able to get it from a male sibling, father, uncle, or cousin before he turns to a woman for it. Or make a new friend or two.