I am talking about men in particular who started dating or lost their virginity late like past 25. Most women by then have had several boyfriends or at least one long term one where they learned alot and bonded with somebody. For the guys who are late bloomers how do they fare in maintaining respect and being the man / leader and wearing the pants in the relationship being the less experienced party?

Also just for fun let’s include to the dynamic something that’s a given already. Exes. She will have exes that she was attached to and to compare him to while he won’t.

One more: would she just be settling for him?

Edit: this post was inspired by the fears of the forever alone crowd. In society people often get told it’ll happen when it happens, don’t worry about it. To some that seems idealistic and to others the forever alone crowd seems to exaggerate their fears surrounding lack of success. I’m curious what y’all think.