Why Women Are More Likely to Feel Depressed by Dating

The lies that are told about women and love are often believed. Stereotypical assumptions like; most women want a relationship, most women want to be married, and most women want a tall, rich husband, who will take care of them for the rest of their lives harm women who just want to be loved.

Society believes that most women want a romantic partner, who will send them flowers, profess their love on Instagram, beseech all other women for her, and buy them expensive jewelry. And why wouldn’t this assumption be wide spread when it’s heavily supported on television, in movies, and marketing.

For decades, the image of a wide eyed woman, with a grin from ear to ear, reveling in surprise and delight, as her male partner reveals a small velvet box from Jared’s or Kay Jewelers was accepted as reality, instead of advertisement.

Many assumptions are made about what society thinks women want, and what they are after, yet life paints a very different picture. If women were so adamantly pursuing these stereotypical outcomes why is it that most women don’t have them? For centuries, women have been described as seeking the most idyllic of marital circumstances, but we know by the divorce rate, the rate of domestic violence, and the percentage of women diagnosed with depression (more on that later) that these dreams…