Woman Asks How Others Deal With "Not Being Pretty" And A Former Marine Responds In The Most Beautiful Way
Women often feel pressured to strive for the airbrushed features of the models they see on TV, leading them to assume that those are the types of women all men seek in a partner.
Beauty standards can be brutal, especially when they convince people that only one kind of face or body is worth loving. That pressure can make even confident people question how they look, and it can hit hardest when someone is already feeling low.
That is exactly what happened when one woman posted in AskWomen about not feeling pretty. What she got back was not the usual empty reassurance, but a response from a former Marine who spoke from his own experience with body image and attraction.
His reply struck a nerve for a reason, and the comments that followed made it even clearer why so many people connected with it.
Here's the original post.
RedditAnd here is the brilliant reply she received from an insightful former Marine.
The post hit a nerve right away.
The man explained exactly how it feels for a man when he falls in love.
He describes what goes through a man's mind when he realizes he's attracted to a woman.
This is similar to the AITA case where one partner wanted the other to skip a work event.
Awwww.
The man explained that to the man who loves a woman, she is perfect.
He says we only need to observe an elderly couple and the way the husband looks at his wife.
The man's words were both simple and beautiful.
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Here's how other men reacted to the former Marine's response.
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People in the comments were clearly feeling it too.
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