So I'm currently in the anger/jaded fucking hatred phase it would seem.

There's something that's been bothering me for a long time, and I hope you guys can help me think about it differently or something. It is the disparity between how Rollo's SMV peaks play out in the real world. Rollo states that women's SMV "burns fast and hot" while men's "burns long and slow"...as if this is some sort of wash. It certainly doesn't seem like it.

 

In the US, particularly outside of the giant metropolitan areas, people marry for the first time in their mid-20s. Which means they are single from 18 to around 22-23(their college years). At this point, women's SMV is peaking, so they can...without any effort...have a ton of casual fun and truly experience their "party years", before cashing in their chips on the best guy who's around at the end of college (when her SMV is still high). So women get to USE their SMV peak easily to get BOTH plenty of casual fun AND a high value husband. These husbands seem to be 1-2 years older than them.

 

Men's SMV on the other hand is in the toilet from 18-22, so they work extremely hard on self-improvement, social skills, etc in order to reap minimal returns(if any). Many are like me, and didn't find out about the red pill until they were in their mid-20s, at which point the "everyone's single" years are gone. The theory here, is that a man who goes into his late 20's or early 30's single will be peaking in terms of his SMV....but what fucking good is it at that point? All the quality women he previously didn't have access to would theoretically be available to him now...but they're all fucking married and popping out kids. That means he has to look to younger women, but those younger women are now peaking, so it's not exactly some sort of cake-walk. Let's say you're 30 and looking for a wife because you want kids and a family (yeah yeah, we get it, we know you think marriage is bullshit, save your comments). That means you have to either A. Find a needle in a haystack (high value woman who's still unmarried and childless in late 20s) or B. You have to wife up some 22 year old who's not very mature, and who has a very highly inflated sense of her own value because she never experienced the decline.

 

Help me think about this a different way, because right now, the only way I see this working out well for men is if they are not interested in having a family and only want to use their peak SMV to hook up with young women in their party phase. It seems like if a man wants a family, he has to settle in his mid-20s for a woman below him in value, or get the sloppy seconds version of a woman who was high value but now is divorced with a couple of kids (shudder).