RELATIONSHIPS/WRITING/GET MARRIED STRATEGY

Your Article Will Hurt Her, and You Haven’t Even Met Her Yet

Message to men who write about relationships

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne isn’t misogynist. He was grumbling because the women were selling. Women were writing books that sold by the 10,000, so they needn’t write any better. It was what people wanted to read.

Today, both men and women write uninhibitedly.

Yet, I am amazed by some men authors who write about relationships. These are unmarried men who talk of online dating sites, girlfriend reaction experiences, gifting ideas, cheap restaurants that look posh — this is hot stuff, eminently readable! Hot stuff that makes you pity the girl he’ll land up with.

The same author comes across as erudite, articulate and quite the catch when he talks about technology, marketing, advertising, writing, or even a memoir. Why?

Because writing about relationships is the prerogative of the damned mob of scribbling women. It suits women like a sun dress on the beach.

Men writing about relationships publish a well-researched, interesting and readable article that gives away all their trade secrets. Yes, dating, courting and wooing is a trade. It is a business, to be transacted neatly. The end customer being your wife.

How Not To Find A Wife

• Publish a listicle of 50 girls who ditched you or weren’t good enough for you.
• Write about how buying a diamond ring is a bad idea because 50% of marriages end up in a divorce. That would make you attractive, to a gold-digger.
• Create a publication about how you hate your own culture. Your future wife or her family will research this and in case they do marry off their darling girl to you, will quote it back at you.

These publicly turn the woman you finally end up with into the person who gets the last piece of chocolate after everyone else has snapped a piece off.

Yes, I read the articles. I married at 23, I am not in the market and I still find it interesting. Yes, I am a hypocrite for saying this, but this is honest and hypocritical.

Less is more. The money will come. Every story need not be written right away.

Kids are humbling. Marriage is a good thing. Get married first, and then write about relationships. Don’t screw it up for yourself like this. You sound like really smart guys in the technical articles.

Write your way out of it. Re-brand yourself. Write articles that showcase your growth as a person. Future fathers-in-law should read your profile and say, Hallelujah! We found The One!

Good luck with the chase.