Love + Sex
The Truth About... Mr Right
Found among the pages of numerous chick lit novels and starring in a girlie movie in a cinema near you, he is the man we are encouraged to dream of. However, there are rumours that this male-beyond-compare is on his way out... Could Mr Right be an endangered species?
Who is he?
You'll know when you've met him. He's the high-flying guy with the winning smile, the GSOH, creativity, wit, intelligence and the disconcerting habit of making your stomach leap around ecstatically in a way that makes you feel ever so slightly sick...
Also known as 'The One', he's adored by your mum and embraced by your friends as one of their own. On closer inspection, you may also detect a rosy glow in his near vicinity and a valiant charger tied up outside the back door...
But Mr Right has developed a frown on his previously unwrinkled brow...
If every yin has its yang, it's not unreasonable to assume that if there's one Mr Right, there must be one Mr Wrong. But now that women are playing the dating game rather than waiting for Mr Darcy to emerge from a pond or appear at a turkey curry buffet, they have discovered that there are hundreds of Mr Wrongs. You may have met some of them...
It's therefore reasonable to assume that there must also be more than one Mr Right - which rather upsets the apple cart.
Another problem: according to government forecasts, 40% of us will be living alone in 2010. Add to this the fact that men aged between 25 and 44 are currently twice as likely as women to be living 'solo' and it's obvious that Mr Right is developing a penchant for bachelor pads and we are very happy with our own space too...
The idea of there being just one guy for every girl suggests that each and every woman has a space in her life for the perfect man. If he's late or a no-show, we're left staring wistfully at an empty frame - a gap in ourselves that Mr Almost Right just isn't going to fill.
However, women are now leading full, busy lives that have closed up that gap. We have the drive and ambition to be successful, we cultivate our circle of friends and are becoming increasingly independent. 'The One' is clearly not all he's been cracked up to be...
You'll know when you've met him. He's the high-flying guy with the winning smile, the GSOH, creativity, wit, intelligence and the disconcerting habit of making your stomach leap around ecstatically in a way that makes you feel ever so slightly sick...
Also known as 'The One', he's adored by your mum and embraced by your friends as one of their own. On closer inspection, you may also detect a rosy glow in his near vicinity and a valiant charger tied up outside the back door...
But Mr Right has developed a frown on his previously unwrinkled brow...
If every yin has its yang, it's not unreasonable to assume that if there's one Mr Right, there must be one Mr Wrong. But now that women are playing the dating game rather than waiting for Mr Darcy to emerge from a pond or appear at a turkey curry buffet, they have discovered that there are hundreds of Mr Wrongs. You may have met some of them...
It's therefore reasonable to assume that there must also be more than one Mr Right - which rather upsets the apple cart.
Another problem: according to government forecasts, 40% of us will be living alone in 2010. Add to this the fact that men aged between 25 and 44 are currently twice as likely as women to be living 'solo' and it's obvious that Mr Right is developing a penchant for bachelor pads and we are very happy with our own space too...
The idea of there being just one guy for every girl suggests that each and every woman has a space in her life for the perfect man. If he's late or a no-show, we're left staring wistfully at an empty frame - a gap in ourselves that Mr Almost Right just isn't going to fill.
However, women are now leading full, busy lives that have closed up that gap. We have the drive and ambition to be successful, we cultivate our circle of friends and are becoming increasingly independent. 'The One' is clearly not all he's been cracked up to be...
