a) even when preferring women with better "superficial traits", he still liked women the most for laughing at his jokes, enjoying his company, finding his touch satisfying, and coming back for more; everything else on top of it, such as nice waistline, were merely seasoning on already delicious and pleasant base. This has not changed from the moment he reached puberty to today.

b) he himself faced his fair share of rejections but never rejected a woman merely for not being a "super-stacy"; even when he accepted women's superficial traits as part of his preferences, he still followed the call of his lizard brain that produced instinctive visceral desire based on sensory cues and genetic predispositions.

c) being not a complete idiot, he knows that things that make a woman's heart instinctively and uncontrollably skip a beat for reasons of evolution, do not include virtual tokens stored on his bank's server farm.

So, if a man suddenly finds himself enjoying a woman's attention just as soon as he pupated from Bob the Nerd to Bob the IT Guy with 7+ digit income and his own place, what conclusions is he supposed to make? Why did these women spend the last several years on someone else, while he was getting onto his feet and earning his humble but reliable prosperity, when he probably needed their support and approval the most? What, if anything, can he do to make sure that a woman's interest in him is genuine?

Discuss.

Edit: I wanted this post to be a "Discussion" but mods reflaired it as "Question for women"; I have no idea what is happening.

Edit2: The most common question I see is "how these women know his salary", implying that if he is too reckless with this information, then this is his own fault. Putting aside that it's plain and simple good old Just World Fallacy, there are many ways a woman can get a crude estimate of his prosperity without asking directly. The simplest I see is finding out the company he works for and his approximate position within it (the first she can do by spotting him as they cross paths on lunch breaks or by any other means that normal people living in reality use, the second, just ask him or any of his coworkers; both are harder if they're just OLDing, but OLD is its own story). The rest, she can simply Google up.

For some reason, my first edit has summoned the second Automod thread.