There is an image you have when it comes to who you would be attracted to.

At a younger age, such as when you are in your teens and early twenties, you are more about how a guy makes you feel.

To this end, you are far more caught up on the aesthetics, such as good looks and height, than you are whether he is a good earner.

It is at this youthful age range that you are more susceptible to guys who have an edge, bad boys, so to speak.

But, as you get older, particularly once you are in your mid- to late twenties and into your early thirties and beyond, you are looking to settle down and find a long-term relationship prospect.

This is where you become even pickier.

Yes, you still want the aesthetics and the edge, but you also want him to be socially and financially established.

The men who check all of these boxes are in the minority.

But you believe you deserve such a man.

Throughout your life, you have been told by friends, family, acquaintances, coworkers, TV media, social media, and society-at-large that you are beautiful and deserve only the best in a potential mate.

This means that by the time you are in your mid-twenties and beyond, you are fully invested in this mindset.

It is an integral part of how you look at yourself or who you deem yourself to be.

Sadly, you have developed a highly inflated sense of self to such an extent that you think that you only deserve the absolute highest level of a man in physical appearance, social status, educational and professional achievements, and wealth.

Again, a man with all of these qualities is in the minority.

Since there are plenty of other women who think like you and believe they deserve a man with all of these qualities, such a man becomes a rare commodity that is highly desired.

This gives him a lot of options in women.

These are women who you would be competing with to get a man of this caliber.

Nevertheless, you don’t believe you should compete because you are special and are deserving of a man who gives you all of his exclusive attention.

This notion makes you that much more picky, expecting a man with all of these qualities to only have eyes for you.

Unfortunately, such a man will naturally focus on the women who are actually competing to get his attention and win him over as a future mate.

The truth is that most of these women won’t really qualify to be his long-term partner.

Several of them end up in situationships with him, desperately clinging on to the ideal that he eventually chooses them for long-term commitment.

They fall into a trap of their own making because they fell for the lie that they are far more appealing than they really are.

As long as you don’t realistically evaluate yourself as far as your value in the dating market, you run a risk of staying single into old age.