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How to soften the impact of aging on your marriage prospects

Sadly it is true that as women age their sexual market value decreases. Everyone knows this happens, but why it happens is poorly understood. If you understand the phenomenon, you can minimise its impact on you. “Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare. She is almost three-and-twenty! Lord! how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty!” -Lydia Bennet, Pride & Prejudice It is true that people, in general, get less attractive as they get older. But, speaking broadly, we find it quite difficult to tell how old people are and overindex on cues that don’t…

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