Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
In all centuries prior to The 20th, they were arranged by outside parties, to benefit themselves. Today, marriage is pretty much a status symbol... it's thriving among the rich and the upper middle class, and in decline among everyone else
Just because a woman listens to you and acts interested in what you say doesn't mean she really is. She might just be acting polite, while silently wishing that the date would hurry up and end, or that you would go away... and never come back.
Quote taken from The SoSuave Guide to Women and Dating, which you can read for FREE.
Great point.
Marriage among the middle class has long been in decline, though the decline is not as steep as among the "poor".
Thus I put the word "upper" in front of "middle class" in post you're replying to