Women can go long stretches without sex, like a camel without water in the desert, and still keep their sanity helps them stick to their guns. A girl friend once told me “For women, when we’re not getting it, we kinda forget about it. When we’re getting it, we crave it. For men, when you guys aren’t getting it, you crave it.”

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Happiness in love rests in large part on your ability to get past your ego and see yourself for who you truly are and how much you actually bring to the table. It’s a soul-wrenching process of self-examination that sometimes only happens after years of reality have pounded into you the fact of your true worth. If you don’t like your market value, then do what you can to raise it. Otherwise, keep tilting at windmills.