re: I've started to empathize with the ladies that say they're too attractive to date.

This is true. What I have found is that you just have to be above that and simply do your thing be yourself with full confidence. If not a match great if not screw it. I find the women are really clingy and stinking of desperation. In fact that whole age group of late 30’s-mid 40’s women seems that way to me. They latch on and act like they are shizzat.