Tween girls are propagandized by fashion and entertainment industries that teen life is fun and should be fun, fun, fun.
As they pass through puberty, the pop culture, entertainment media, and boys emphasize sex as the ultimate road to fun.
Nature protects girls at first. Their biological makeup and childish nature reject sex for ‘later’. But they welcome whatever else is fun. Unless taught differently by mothers or siblings as necessary for popularity, girls intuitively value virginity over fun.
This moves fun to the top of girlhood priorities, while sex rises to the top for boys. Then, as boys become more meaningful in their lives, the fun imperative reinforces itself among girls. Unfortunately, it too often carries into adulthood.
Teen minds and bodies develop. Boys and girls merge socially for fun. Separation of fun and sex begins to melt, as girls grow through adolescence. Erotic fashions attract greater attention.
Infatuation sings with fun, but romantic love broadcasts greater fun. (Girls probably can’t tell the difference, and boys can’t separate it from adventure.)
Having a boyfriend becomes the ultimate path to girlhood fun. It reinforces a girl’s confidence, social importance, and envy of others. She can also lord it over girlfriends. The ‘security’ of having a boyfriend frees her for riskier behavior.
But then, sooner or later, her fun is not his. He expects more. He convinces her sex is fun too. Merging her infatuation with a boy’s hormone hurricane, she yields expecting true romance to emerge.
Romantic love has to be fun. So, if sex is required to hold their fun-filled romance together, it symbolizes fun. Even if it disappoints her, she still has him as status symbol.
Accepting sex as fun matches his nature perfectly, but it violates her own. She adopts masculine as more important than female values and learns to act more like a guy. Her identity becomes embedded in masculine fun, fun, fun.
Fun trumps strictly female interests. Mothering, nurturing, nesting, and family responsibility lose appeal. The female strengths of ladyhood, female modesty, and feminine dignity disappear.
However, one female blessing remains. Weddings, the ultimate attention and affection producers for the bride, produce immense fun. Obligations and vows are taken seriously, but the heritage of fun lingers inside her.
As soon as romantic love fades in a year or two, as it inevitably does, the fun ends for her. Responsibilities of partner, wife, and perhaps mother begin to burden. Domestic burdens grow, and depression arrives. It tickles her drive to restore fun to her life.
She needs new fun, and she learned earlier that it starts with a new man. So, she dumps partner, husband, and perhaps father of her kids to seek another. When romantic love with new guy fades in a year or two, she moves on. And then she finds…?
Values learned in the tweens and reinforced as a teen turn wives into physical adults but mental adolescents. Manic until romantic love fades in a year or two. Depressive until the next romance starts.
Her childish need for fun overwhelms satisfaction with current mate, but she rationalizes the fault to be his. For example, he pays no attention to her sexual wants, needs, and desires.
Such women never grow out of the adolescent idea that romance is both the ultimate and only fun. Every so often it requires a new man. So, they dump husbands, who probably never see it coming.