This week sees the publication of a book called ‘Marry Him: The case for Settling for Mr Good Enough.’
Written by a Lori Gottileb a 40 year old single mother, the book encourages single women in their late 20s to get a move on to find Mr Right or they might spend the rest of their lives on their own if they don’t find him by 30.
Gottileb puts paid to the myth of women finding ‘The One’, stating its a lie fueled by Hollywood and romantic fiction and encourages singletons to settle for and marry men that are OK – men who treat them nice, have a job and want to settle down.
She states she wished that she had settled for any of the perfectly acceptable but uninspiring men she rejected during her search for the perfect man. “We grew up idealising marriage, but we’d had a more realistic understanding of its cold, hard benefits, we might have done things differently, so we walked away from uninspiring relationships that might have made us happy. What make a a good marriage isn’t necessarily what makes a good romantic relationship.”
She also goes on to say that if you were to ask any honest 40+ single woman what she most longs for in life she is likely to say a husband and a family. “Every woman I know – no matter how successful and ambitious, financially and emotionally secure – feels panic coupled with desperation if hits 30 and is not married.”
Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
