&gt; My sister and her friends are all pretty educated women. Unfortunately, their standards have really gone up since receiving said education.<p>Once you reach a certain level in earnings you will have a very hard time finding someone that earns approximately the same amount.<p>I&#x27;m sure that this is currently even harder for men.<p>In this situation you really only have the choice to either marry down or never have a family of your own and stay alone for the rest of your life.<p>The thing is, you don&#x27;t really &quot;marry down&quot;. Usually people in the US&#x2F;EU don&#x27;t have to fear that they will have to face starvation or anything like that if they marry the wrong women&#x2F;man so what is marrying down even about?<p>If one partner already has a lot of resources, why would he&#x2F;she then require the other partner to be his&#x2F;her equal in this regard?<p>When you remove economic resources from the equation you&#x27;ll find that there are many perfectly fine potential partners out there with all the attributes that one could hope for.