{"id":27675,"date":"2010-12-28T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T00:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=27675"},"modified":"2010-12-28T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T00:20:35","slug":"what-do-women-want-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=27675","title":{"rendered":"What Do Women Want?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/DennisPrager\/2010\/12\/28\/what_do_women_want\">Dennis Prager writes<\/a>:  What a woman most wants is to be loved by a man she admires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The truth is that almost nothing &#8212; including job success &#8212; elevates a woman in her own eyes as much as being loved by a husband whom she admires. That is why when married women get together, they don&#8217;t talk about their jobs nearly as much as men do. They talk, among other things, about their man if they are proud of him, and complain about him if they are not. Even most feminists are happiest when married to a man they admire.<\/p>\n<p>And what is it that women most admire in a man? From decades of talking to women on the radio and, of course, from simply living life, I have concluded that an admirable man is one who has three qualities: strength, integrity and ambition.<\/p>\n<p>All three are needed. Strength without integrity is machismo. Integrity without strength or without ambition is a milquetoast. And ambition without integrity is a successful crook.<\/p>\n<p>Women are drawn to strong men. Though many men, when asked the secret to their long marriage, answer, &#8220;I learned to always say, &#8216;Yes, Dear,'&#8221; the truth is that most women are not attracted to &#8220;Yes, Dear&#8221; men who always give in to a woman&#8217;s whim. They are attracted to a man who exhibits strength in the outer world and at home as husband and father.<\/p>\n<p>But that strength must come with integrity. If it doesn&#8217;t, he is a strong bad man. And while more than a few women fall for bad men (precisely because of the power of masculine strength to attract women), most women do not want such a man over the long run.<\/p>\n<p>And ambition does not mean that he is necessarily rich, but that he is a hard worker who wants to improve himself; plenty of men who earn relatively little are admired and loved by their wives. That is why a major &#8220;turn-off&#8221; to most women is a husband who sits and watches television all night (let alone all day).<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of all this is that it all comes together for men, for women and for society.<\/p>\n<p>Women get what they want most: to be married to and loved by a man they admire. Men then attain what they want most: to be admired by the woman they love. And society gets the thing it most needs: admirable men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager writes: What a woman most wants is to be loved by a man she admires. &#8230;The truth is that almost nothing &#8212; including job success &#8212; elevates a woman in her own eyes as much as being loved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=27675\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,4,619],"tags":[15418,24793,29761,15980,24792,24794],"class_list":["post-27675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-dennis-prager","category-marriage","tag-bad-man","tag-bad-men","tag-dennis-prager","tag-milquetoast","tag-society-women","tag-strong-men"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dennis Prager writes: What a woman most wants is to be loved by a man she admires. ...The truth is that almost nothing -- including job success -- elevates a woman in her own eyes as much as being loved by a husband whom she admires. 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