672. Avoiding Commitment Is Unhealthy
Often people, who are not in a relationship, especially those, who had been hurt, cope with this situation by distributing their emotional and social needs over a variety of sources, children, family, colleagues, buddies. What first starts as a method of substitution, sometimes reduces or eliminates all subjectively felt need to find a partner and the situation is perpetuated.
Often people, who are not in a relationship, especially those, who had been hurt, cope with this situation by distributing their emotional and social needs over a variety of sources, children, family, colleagues, buddies. What first starts as a method of substitution, sometimes reduces or eliminates all subjectively felt need to find a partner and the situation is perpetuated.
Women in such a situation often claim to not need a man at all. Thus they at least do not harm anybody.
Men in such a situation unfortunately are also a jeopardy for women needing a companion, because while they can fulfill all their emotional and social need by combined substitutes, they continue to have physiological needs. They restore their homeostasis by the temporary abuse of female bodies, but refuse commitment.
According to this research, such a system of substitutes does not suffice to maintain optimal health:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130703101607.htm
"New BYU research finds that people in happy marriages live less "in sickness" but enjoy more of life "in health."
In a 20-year longitudinal study tracking health and marriage quality, BYU family life researcher Rick Miller found that as the quality of marriage holds up over the years, physical health holds up too."
This has unfortunate implications. The more people feel a deficit, the more they are motivated to change this actively. Men on dating sites, who have settled in such a system of substitutions, are often not motivated to make the least efforts towards finding a committed relationship, while they are still healthy and fit. They make the big mistake of waiting passively and with inertia, until some perfect dream woman would falls from the sky directly into their bed.
In my age group, these men's mistake can be fatal. They are in denial, that once they have undermined their health and are already sick, frail and in need of a caring woman, then it is too late to find one. Few women are interested to start a relationship as a nurse.
