Can women feel admiration, passion, desire, or respect for men who have nothing to offer them?

[tesla8520]

How can women feel admiration, passion, desire, and respect for a man if he has nothing to offer them?

For example, imagine a woman chooses a man because he is wealthy. Does that necessarily mean she admires him, respects him, desires him, or feels genuine passion for him? We don't know...
Or suppose she chooses a man because he has high social status. Again, does that automatically mean she admires, respects, desires, or feels passion for him? Not necessarily....

So, if a man provides no reproductive value, financial support, companionship, resources, lifestyle benefits, or any other role in a woman's life, how could she develop admiration, respect, desire, or passion for him?

Perhaps this is the key: every woman looks for a man who can fulfill one or more roles in her life, and the specific roles she values differ from one woman to another.

 

[Mike32ct]

We don’t know for sure.

When a woman is attracted to a guy, we often try to “reverse engineer” it and speculate on why she’s into him. “He’s tall. It’s his money. It’s his jawline. It’s his job. It’s his hair. It’s his hunter eyes. It’s his fitness.”

I’m totally guilty of this lol.

The “WTF guys” or men with no obvious attractive characteristics that still get women, are quite rare though.

 

[corrector]

The “WTF guys” or men with no obvious attractive characteristics that still get women, are quite rare though.

Yeah, I really want to watch this movie Obsession (2026) when it comes to SVOD streaming. It's a movie that seems to play with that fantasy.

 

[Manure Spherian]

How can women feel admiration, passion, desire, and respect for a man if he has nothing to offer them?

Yes.

 

[Bokanovsky]

How can women feel admiration, passion, desire, and respect for a man if he has nothing to offer them?

Have you ever felt "admiration, passion, desire, and respect" for a woman who had nothing to offer you? Say a fat single mom in her 50's. Just curious.

 

[Manure Spherian]

In a word, yes!

I had a four month fling with an older woman many years ago while unemployed. Granted I was not a bum, and was laid off because the place of business closed and was employed a few months later. However, considering she was five years older than me, and a divorced single mother, I had practically nothing to offer her. And she did not want to do more than have sex and go on dates with me. She even said, "You're not my boyfriend." That, after being at her home on a damn near daily basis and screwing every chance we got.