Recently, the media has been awash with articles suggesting that career women are to relationships what garlic is to a vampire – the kiss of death.
We’re unable to sustain meaningful unions, apparently, because men are intimidated by our intellect, threatened by our higher earning potential and turned off by our controlling, capable, yet powerful personalities.
While this has been my personal experience – I was left by the father of my daughter (now nearly five) three years ago when I was the higher earner – I think that the issue goes far deeper.