I was 28 years old when I realised that men were lying when they said: “I want to date a smart and successful woman.” It’s an easy thing for a man to say because, statistically, it is unlikely that most will ever come across the opportunity to date such women. Likewise, it’s also an easy thing for women to hear, especially successful women. It’s what we crave. Like most humans, we want to be wanted, and never more so than after we’ve heard our own mothers decry our attractiveness to potential husbands. But when you actually start to date the…

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