My humble relationship advice for women at 40.

Recently, I had the opportunity to play a round of golf with a female friend of mine and two of her female friends as well. After a great round of golf, we went back to her house where I proceeded to cook dinner for all of us.

Because I was a friend, male and cooking dinner, the ladies seemed to feel very comfortable talking in front of me about their dating lives.

Holy cow. What an eye opener that was.

Let me first start by saying, I am not all that and a bag of chips -far from it actually. I have my hang ups and feel the normal insecurities most of us face on a daily basis.

What I heard and experienced that fateful night at dinner almost made me run screaming from the house.

As the night progressed and wine flowed, I began to see a side of this group of three women that had me questioning if I would ever date again. I have never heard a group of people bitch and gripe about so many people in my entire life. They looked like three Queens, sipping red wine and damning the rest of us who happen to be male to the guillotine.

I felt like asking them if they saw any correlation between the fact they had such impossibly high standards for men and the fact they were all single themselves. Furthermore, it appeared this group of forty something women had never had a serious relationship, either past or present, where they seemed sincerely happy.

I am not suggesting all women are like this.

If however, you find you are approaching forty or on the North side of forty, single and without any prospects for any kind of date soon, you may want to consider the following advice.

If you are looking for perfection from a man then you damn well better bring perfection to the table yourself.

These three women were holding up impossibly high standards that no man could realistically attain.

One woman in the group was obviously very good looking, had a good job, loved golf and seemed very bright. There was a litany of stories from her about failed relationships and unsuccessful dating experiences.

Nice guy, cute, clean and neat, great job but drove a crappy car. Perhaps he didn