Some women have been single so long they don’t date any more.” So opens a TikTok video posted earlier this year, which several friends shared with me independently (along with laughing-crying emojis). The piece-to-camera video features a Frenchman describing, with hilarious accuracy, why many heterosexual women have become too self-sufficient to truly enjoy a relationship.
“They grant you access to their peaceful little empire like a reluctant queen handing you a visitor’s badge,” he goes on. “You text her ‘good morning’ and she’s already annoyed, like, ‘why are you disturbing the sacred silence of my personal growth journey?’”
