Counterpoint: large portions of your "attractive qualities" list are shared by large segments of our friend group! You get "Oxbridge graduate, successful career with a very good long-term earning potential, lots of friends, both men and women, a good person – thoughtful, kind, has a backbone, seeks to improve the world in measurable ways, reads books and is cultured and knowledgeable about a range of things, has hobbies – walking (or ‘hiking’ in American English), plays several instruments, cooks, climbs)" basically for free, with any member of our social set. But also "date people in your friend group" is perhaps a less catchy post.
I think it helps because I'm immersed in middle class nerd world. But the average quality of person I matched with on the apps (where I met [redacted]) was better.
Congrats Aria! I wish both of you many children. ;-) I'm very much looking forward to the rest of the series, seems like we might have a lot of opinions in common!
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>As long term trends show that only functional people are deciding to get married and everyone is getting lonelier, we should expect the hedonistic returns to marriage to improve.
Very interesting first post, Aria! It helps to appreciate it that I agree with everything you say though. And you actually met SBF?? You've got to write about that some day!!
Counterpoint: large portions of your "attractive qualities" list are shared by large segments of our friend group! You get "Oxbridge graduate, successful career with a very good long-term earning potential, lots of friends, both men and women, a good person – thoughtful, kind, has a backbone, seeks to improve the world in measurable ways, reads books and is cultured and knowledgeable about a range of things, has hobbies – walking (or ‘hiking’ in American English), plays several instruments, cooks, climbs)" basically for free, with any member of our social set. But also "date people in your friend group" is perhaps a less catchy post.
Not every social circle is quite so blessed
Do you think you would have been successful in finding such a husband if you weren't surrounded by reasonable candidates?
I think it helps because I'm immersed in middle class nerd world. But the average quality of person I matched with on the apps (where I met [redacted]) was better.
This is my first time reading your Substack, can’t wait to read more! You’re funny and also this article affirmed a lot of my biases 👌
Congratulations! Wishing you many happy years together
Great post! Unfortunately I can confirm everything in that last paragraph 🥲
Congrats Aria! I wish both of you many children. ;-) I'm very much looking forward to the rest of the series, seems like we might have a lot of opinions in common!
Love the premise, love the bold posture. Congratulations. And preach!
Congratulations. Wishing you both all wonderful things now and in the future. Look forward to catching up some time.
As someone who was very deliberately looking for a husband as well, I’m very excited for this series!
Breaking on Substack: For years, men have complained that modern women are too status-obsessed and stuck-up. Aria Schrecker is here to change that. Through her step-by-step Mercenary Method™ of dumping dozens of hapless dudes left and right, she personally guarantees that every female reader of her series will receive one (1) 6'1 Oxbridge graduate husband with high earning potential and impeccable SEO. Limited time offer while supplies last. Don't wait, call now!
> To maintain his impeccable SEO I’m not going to name him but here’s his CV.
I wish you luck but the fact that you cared to list it down like this makes it feel off. I would never do this to the person I love.
Is Works in Progress pronatalist? I’m genuinely a bit speechless at this article.
The hasty generalizations of statistics is not the sort of caliber of analysis I’ve held Works in Progress up to.
Some of this reads like old school red-pill content mixed with trad wife content. I had to do a double, and then a triple read.
A very Asian post 😂, especially at the start, listing qualities of the guy and throwing in traits of the family members
>As long term trends show that only functional people are deciding to get married and everyone is getting lonelier, we should expect the hedonistic returns to marriage to improve.
The first seems like a noncausal correlation!
Congrats! Where is my husband?!
Very interesting first post, Aria! It helps to appreciate it that I agree with everything you say though. And you actually met SBF?? You've got to write about that some day!!
I stayed in the Bahamas for a month with the FTX crowd and other Effective Altruists before the whole fraud thing was uncovered
As I say, that sounds like a good intro for a very interesting post.
Bold!