From my experience of a best friend who is Mormon in the UK, I can only say that she was highly motivated to find a fellow Morman guy to marry and had a criteria of being very religious, fit and attractive but also wealthy. She said that her motivation for a wealthy husband was not standard greed (as this was anathema to her religious views) but was mostly due to their want/need to give the church 10% of their earnings straight from their wages. The fact she wanted a fit and healthy husband was also in part due to her wanting to have a large family and needing a husband who could not only provide financially for that but also to help keep up with the strains of a large household.
Sounds like your friend is a very smart lady. Hopefully she succeeded in her goals. Increasingly finding a suitable partner for marriage is becoming very difficult for both genders. The financial risks of marriage in the US are causing large swaths of otherwise successful young men to opt out of marriage altogether. Women are often misguided into sacrificing personal life on the alter of professionalism until it is too late to have a large family even if they wanted one.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/bachelor-nation-70-men-aged-20-34-are-not-marriedSeventy percent of American males between the ages of 20 and 34 are not married, and many live in a state of “perpetual adolescence” with ominous consequences for the nation’s future,
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“The ones who are very serious get married early. And that leaves the majority of the girls, then, by the time they’re 25 and into their first jobs, the pickings are very, very slim for them."
If you want to read a bunch of post by angry men who have opted out of the marriage market read the comments at the bottom of that news article above. Most of them are angry manosphere folks. The manosphere movement appears to be rapidly morphing into the male version of feminism. When you think that for every one of those angry unmarried men there is probably a matching angry unmarried feminist the toxic nature of modern culture comes into focus. The youth are opting to avoid marriage and families altogether. What are they doing instead? Well increasingly they appear to be celebratory participants in the hedonistic
dating apocalypseIt’s setting up two or three Tinder dates a week and, chances are, sleeping with all of them, so you could rack up 100 girls you’ve slept with in a year.”
He says that he himself has slept with five different women he met on Tinder—“Tinderellas,” the guys call them—in the last eight days. “Brittany, Morgan, Amber,” Marty says, counting on his fingers. “Oh, and the Russian—Ukrainian?”
But Marty, who prefers Hinge to Tinder (“Hinge is my thing”), is no slouch at “racking up girls.” He says he’s slept with 30 to 40 women in the last year. “I sort of play that I could be a boyfriend kind of guy,” in order to win them over, “but then they start wanting me to care more … and I just don’t.”
“There is no dating. There’s no relationships,” says Amanda, the tall elegant one. “They’re rare. You can have a fling that could last like seven, eight months and you could never actually call someone your ‘boyfriend.’ [Hooking up] is a lot easier. No one gets hurt—well, not on the surface. It’s a contest to see who cares less, and guys win a lot at caring less,” Amanda says."
“But if you say any of this out loud, it’s like you’re weak, you’re not independent, you somehow missed the whole memo about third-wave feminism,” says Amanda.
“When it’s so easy, when it’s so available to you,” Brian says intensely, “and you can meet somebody and fuck them in 20 minutes, it’s very hard to contain yourself.”
Rebecca, the blonde with the canny eyes, also mentioned above, hooked up with someone, too. “It was O.K.” She shrugs. “Right after it was done, it was kind of like, mmmp … mmmp.” She gives a little grunt of disappointment.
“It’s a confidence booster,” says Jessica, 21, the one who looks like a Swedish tennis player.
Sad, tragic, and terribly unhealthy all around for both genders.
