In Hindsight, High School Girls Were Really Serious About Dating

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I never noticed this at the time, but in high school, girls were deadly serious about dating and finding a guy, a lot more than dudes were.

I used to hang out with girls a fair bit. As a result, I heard the conversations guys don't hear. Here's a spoiler if you've never hung out with a group of high school girls: they talk about guys. Constantly. It's like 80% of their conversation. Guys talk about girls too but not nearly to the same extent. Even the nerd/basket-case girls who couldn't get guys were obsessed with the topic.

One girl I knew always wanted to marry a doctor or a high-tier engineer. She really wanted to 'marry well' so to speak. She hung out with me and my two bros a lot. One of my bros was really good at math, an aspiring engineer. I didn't realize it at the time, but the only reason she hung out with my two bros and I, was because she wanted to get closer to the one math bro. It was well known she had a crush on him. She totally stopped hanging out with me/my bros after the one math bro got engaged. I later found out she married a nearly identical guy 12 years later.

This one girl I dated in HS started getting close to me summer after first year college. She went to extreme lengths to be close to me, getting a job at the same terrible call center I worked at (when she didn't need a summer job). Tried getting me out to hang by calling me on the phone. Kept in touch on FB until she found a guy she's now engaged to. The minute she found that guy, all contact with me stopped. That summer she tried to get close to me again--that was obviously her angling to get back with me, in hindsight. She more or less mentioned that she wanted to, too.

That's just two anecdotes, of course. But it seems younger women will go to extreme lengths to get guys, changing up their entire lives for the sake of it. They approach the whole dating thing with this 'deadly seriousness,' a sense of urgency and fate and destiny that men just don't.