You kinda said what I said( or paraphrased it for that matter). Of course, a man that is about self-development( which is a human beings first priority), is working on developing himself morally, spiritually, financially, and all of the other ways that a man is supposed to grow. However, the commonality among a lot of women is that they diss that type of man on his come up and then want to take credit for his life, even though they couldv'e cared less about it when he didn't have much money, and was pushing an old broke down whip to work. A lotta chicks wanna be Dr. Frankenstein, they want to create a "fantasy" man, that is mixed with good and bad, but they fail to realize that a good man is going to be a good man regardless.
They want a man to be what they want him to be, and they don't accept a man with potential. Those women get left in the dust. Good women find/have good men, because they know how to treat them. Example, ( I gave this story in another thread as well), my own cousin. This girl is twenty-seven, claims to be a "successful, independent" woman. Well anyway, I introduce her to a friend of mine who's an engineer. This brotha has no kids, is in his Phd program, works two jobs, and is an all around repsonsible, focused man. He was twenty eight at the time.
I introduced the two, and they went on two dates. A few weeks later I ask my cousin how her dating the engineer is going, and she says, " well he was kinda boring. I needed a man with more "edge". Everything was too easy with him." Not two weeks later, I find out my cousin is chasing this little thug nigga that stays two blocks from her. This cat already has three babymamas, no job, and roams the block with his boys all day long. She ends up pregnant by him and fast forward to today, this guy hasn't seen her son once. She's crying/lamenting that there "are no good men around, and men aint shit", and it's funny because now the engineer that she dissed now owns his own company, and is married to a beautiful woman that treats him with respect and doesn't view him as boring.
My cousin recently asked me for his number because she wants to "reconnect" with the engineer now. I told my cousin, and I quote, " he's with a woman that has never found him boring, you chased the "exciting" man, now deal with it................................