These ‘fortitudinals’ provide special themes or summaries. Numbers match previous posts.
91. Male conquest is predominately a psychological victory. Later encounters with the same woman are physical. This makes their first sex together monumentally different from whatever comes later.
92. Some women adopt stupid rationalizations: Get pregnant to capture or hold a man. A married man is better than nothing. We’re great in bed, so he must love me. If we don’t cohabit, I’ll lose him.
93. One poor but popular strategy causes women to repeatedly lose the battle of the sexes: She thinks sex will capture a man, her romancing will confirm him as the right man, and her love will hold him.
94. Before marriage he has her on a pedestal. After the kids arrive she puts them on the pedestal. In doing so, she nudges herself off.
95. Women cohabit, because they are desperate to hold a man, or they seek economic advantage. Men cohabit, because she’s unworthy of marriage, he wants to keep his options open, he seeks frequent and convenient sex at low cost, or all of the above.
[Previous fortitudinals appear in posts 270, 265, 260, 255, 250, 245, 240, 234, 228, 213, 203, 199, 186, 182, and 176.]
