Women want to be loved, respected, admired, etc.

It was Freud who asked, after 30 years of research into the feminine soul, "What does a woman want?"
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Charlize: All my life I've been told how beautiful I am. Yet I'm 55 and single, again. I hardly dated in high school or college and blamed it on my 10 pounds of excess weight.
But all the other girls had dates, and they were far from really pretty. Cute, maybe.
Every time I dated a nerd, he would stare at me and tell me how beautiful I was. I've been married twice to men who (on a scale of 1 to 10) are less than 5 in the looks department and less than 2 in the personality department. Now I'm single again.
I feel like the men who are the right ones for me -- intelligent, warm, caring, funny, average-to-good looking, financially independent -- find me threatening because I'm also intelligent, warm, caring, funny and financially independent. They have nothing to offer someone who can rip them apart in an intellectual conversation or afford her own house.
I have it all, so they avoid me and go for the less attractive women with nonvibrant personalities, the Plain Janes, while I spend my weekends at home or with my girlfriends or my handsome gay male friends who have no reason to be intimidated by me.
Sometimes I just want to put a bag over my head, gain 20 pounds and drool. Maybe then I'd find a date.
Daisy: I'm a 33-year-old independent woman with an advanced degree who loves the outdoors, sports, traveling, laughter, kind deeds and a person who rarely gets angry. I've learned to walk in my own two shoes, and I don't think that supporting someone either mentally or emotionally is fun. I've worked hard at being able to be strong and positive and start my days with a smile.
When a man showers me with gifts right off the bat, he's waving a red flag saying, "You will surely like me if I do this! When he says, "I love you" after only a few weeks or a month of knowing me, I want to run. He doesn't know me well enough to know if it's love.
I've been in a few of those relationships, and they drain me. They take so much energy that I find myself worn out at the end of the day.
I believe these were nice guys who were treating me this way, but I still can't emotionally support them. A relationship needs to be a team. I work hard to be able to get up and put on my two shoes every day, even though there are days I'd rather not. Don't get me wrong; I'm human!

However if the guy can't do the same, he's definitely not someone I need to be with.
I would rather be single than try to cheer someone up who's always sulking or pouting.
Women, what do you want? Men, what do you think women want? Send your tale, along with your name, address and day and evening telephone numbers, to P.O. Box 828, Detroit 48231. CHERYL LAVIN is a syndicated columnist. Look for her reports on the dating wars each Sunday.

from : http://www.freep.com/article
by: CHERYL LAVIN