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Yes she started settling at 30. Leaving her what, the opportunity to have maybe 3 (healthy) kids at best if he's lucky?
Some women get married at 18. She graduated early but too bad she was the wrong sex for that to matter for her romantic prospects. She had been rejecting marriage for over 12 years!
Who believes that? If he's serious he puts a ring on it within a year. Smart and beautiful woman gets strung along for 5 years. Many such cases! Sad! That must be the one lesson she skipped by spending so much effort on government school.
I know women in the same age range / cohort as these women who are currently married with children and cohabited with their future husbands for years, many of them for more than five years. One of them has been together with the same man for 22 years, and their first child is only 4 years old. Another one cohabited with her man for around 7 years before they had their first child. And so on. So this approach does actually work. (And no, expecting men to put a ring on it within a year is usually not a viable approach.) I’m not saying this is normal, or should be normal, because it takes abnormal levels of self-control, foresight and low time preference on both sides, but not only can it work, but I believe this is unfortunately the only viable approach in the current mating market for people who want to have a family.
However, one crucial aspect is that none of these women paired up with men who “never once cooked, cleaned or did laundry”, or displayed characteristics similar to these – instead, their partners gave obvious signals of willing to maintain a long-term relationship (which is why I find it strange that you left the second half of that sentence out when replying to it). Then again, noticing such signals and then attracting such men into relationships is something the average woman has been capable of doing for millions of years, so I’m sure it’s not that difficult. So yes, I agree that the smart and beautiful woman you mentioned was indeed foolishly strung along for 5 years.
Well being a functional adult seems like a prerequisite to get married since the point of marriage is to be in charge of children.
While it's possible to never have had to cook, 'learning how to prepare food' is as simple as watching a few youtube videos.
A woman with an aggressive approach to marriage should do just that (and not wait to be in her late 20s to get aggressive either).
For the 2015 woman I recommend joining alt-right circles. For the 2023 woman there's America First.
A woman that would go out of her way to find a man that is interested in cooking is actually a red flag in my point of view.
That means that she is either not too motivated to cook because she doesn't like it, she doesn't like the idea of pleasing her husband and family, is unconfident in her (poor) cooking skills...
Or that she expects her husband to shoulder a large share of cooking duty because her family is so non-traditional that she cannot expect any female relative to ever help when she is heavily pregnant, postpartum or sick.
That latter one is incredibly common and you should consider it carefully with the rest of that potential wife if you ever want a large family.
Unless you already have an incredibly supportive family which will provide more than enough help, but then why would you have any issue getting married, what did you do with that highschool sweetheart arranged by your parents before your birth?
What proper women should be looking for imo is a man that is capable of being a single income earner and provide moral guidance to the family.
Having a healthy supportive family is also very important but again, people like that get off the market really quickly.
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