by Harlow Essex

So my recent guiltiest pleasure is Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker. Now, before you go judging me, I must attribute my fascination to Patti Stanger and her infectious personality. The basic premise of the show is to find love. More specifically, Patti arranges dates for millionaire’s. Women try out and hope to be chosen for a mixer where at, they meet two millionaire’s and try to shmooz them. What intrigues me the most I think isn’t whether or not the millionaire’s find love, but Patti’s advice on relationships.

Most of the men over thirty are interested in young twenty somethings. Patti calls these men, “age-ists”. Last night I heard her guest speak on Love-Line with Dr. Drew. A caller asked why he cannot commit to women that are successful. Patti replied that men who are successful, are put off by successful women because there is constant competition. Men need to feel like the bread winners, they are “hunters”. On the other hand, unsuccessful men enjoy being with successful women because they know they are not on the woman’s level. They are okay taking letting the women have success as long as it doesn’t over bear their own.

That’s one opinion. On the Matchmaker show, Patti also insists on one very specific rule: no sex before monogamy. She mentioned on the Love-Line show as well as on her show, that all men, some more strongly, are hunters. They become tired with women once they’ve slept together. The challenge is over. Patti strictly prohibits her millionaire bachelors from engaging in any sexual activity unless they have committed to one another exclusively. This poses a problem for some of the men, as you would imagine.

Some of her thoughts and methods seem quite logical and I can’t help but watch the interactions between the men and women. In case you can’t catch the show on Tuesdays at 10 on Bravo, check out the website,

 http://www.bravotv.com/the-millionaire-matchmaker .

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