Unmarried women often explain their situation by saying that «good men are all busy.» And they do not realize that they themselves choose unfree men.
American psychologists Jessica Parker and Melissa Burkley (Jessica Parker, Melissa Burkley) asked single men and women to look at a photo of a person of the opposite sex and answer the question: does he (she) attract them as a potential partner? Half of the participants were introduced to the person in the photo as being single, and to the other half as being in a relationship. All men were interested in any new contacts. But single women were more likely to be attracted to men who were already in a relationship. “Subjectively, such men seem more reliable,” the psychologist notes, “after all, their partner qualities have been tested by another woman.”