For some, Valentine’s Day means a dozen red roses, a candlelit supper, and two pairs of eyes bright with affection. A boy and a girl on their first date skating arm in arm, a couple married 40 years lifting a glass and toasting love—these are just a fraction of the scenes played out on this stage. For others, Valentine’s serves up tears and regret, memories of opportunities missed and marriages dissolved.
And for some members of one demographic—men in their 20s to their mid-30s—those roses and candies are barbed reminders that another year has gone by and romance seems as far away as the moon. Maybe you’re one of these men. You dream of finding a woman to love who loves you, someone to marry and share a life with, but that possibility seems as faded as those jeans you wore on your last date six months ago. You’ve struck out again and again. From time to time, you and your puzzled friends who are in the same boat crack open a beer, along with the question, “What do women want?”
