I thought about why each gender, going through the same experience, are affected differently and bring about different outcomes. One reason that came to mind is that when a man is in a long-term-relationship he becomes content/comfortable and as a result no longer works to improve or keep himself up. Inversely, women are always looking for the better package so are constantly keeping up with their appearance and working to improve upon the things which a mate would find attractive. Also, because a woman is always looking for the better package, she has potential men within her radar and has formulated how she can get him into a relationship.
This is good...
...and think about your second point again...if women are the ones bring pursued, then doesn't that put them in control of who they 'allow' to catch them?
With women (generally speaking)...it's always a seller's market.

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