I obviously do not need to tell you that female beauty peaks early and that they all hit the wall in their mid-30s, give or take a few years. However, what is perhaps not so easy to visualize is how rapid this process is and how much different women look who are not even that much older. I had one such encounter recently, which illustrated this point very well.

A few week ago I went to see a doctor. As most doctors, this one had an all-female staff. In front of me was a woman in her early 40s. Being a boomer in spirit, she ran into an issue with her computer, which she could not resolve. Thus, she had to ask one of her colleagues for help. That woman was a still pretty attractive blonde, probably in her early 30s. She did not wear a ring on her ring finger, so presumably she was unmarried and not engaged either.

The danger of the early-30s woman is that there are a lot of men who pursue them, in particular if they are still quite attractive. This woman surely has plenty of suitors. However, you need to be able to look a few years ahead. At 32 or 33 she may still look pretty okay, but a mere seven or eight years later, that will be gone. Menopausal women, for obvious reasons, lack all sex appeal. Nature intended them to be grandmothers at that point, not sex objects for young men. Put a woman in her early 30s right next to one in her early 40s who looks a bit similar, and you will not be able to deny how big the difference is, regardless of how well the woman in her 40s managed to retain her looks.

A man marrying a woman in her early to mid-30s essentially acquires a rapidly depreciating asset, but he may not be aware of this and instead just consider how she looks in the present. Yet, these men get at best a few short years of mildly good looks out of such a woman, and afterwards they have to support them for decades. Of course, there are other issues such as the narrowing fertility window. Once they get baby rabies, which they all seem to do in their mid-30s, the men involved with these women are not going to have such a great time either.

If you want to marry, better go for someone much younger. Not only will she retain her looks for a lot longer, you will also have a lot more time, being able to space out the birth of your children a bit, for instance. In contrast, older women want to rush you through all stages. Even on the first date, they may tell you that they want to have children and that they cannot wait any longer, which is a great way to kill the interest of most men as this is simply not an appropriate statement to make when you know virtually nothing of the other person.