>>19316365>How strange women are.Like all animals, humans are perfectly adapted to our ancestral environment.
Think about it - in a tribe of hunter-gatherers without birth control or social services (child support), women's hypergamy is a huge advantage! All the girls in the tribe will pine for the chief, the most alpha male.
...but they'll all deny him sex. That's the key. Without birth control, they know they can't have sex with a man who doesn't commit. And the alpha (alpha though he may be) can't just rape her either. Her father, brothers, uncles, will fuck him up!
Eventually, inevitably, the alpha "commits" to one of the women. But before marriage, "commitment" meant "falls in love with." So he falls in love with one girl and no longer wants any of the others. They pair off and bond and start a family.
All the women now pine for the number 2 guy (because hypergamy) and the process repeats.
If something bad happens - say the tribe is conquered by a neighbor, natural selection knows that women's reproductive capacity is too important to waste. So, it invented a way for women to submit to, even bond with, violent abusive men who take them captive. The "war bride" phenomenon.
These instincts which are so vexing to us - hypergamy, falling for bad boys, alpha widows - all of it makes perfect sense in our ancestral environment.