[J-dawg]

So, lonely guys in male-dominated jobs get desperate and make bad dating choices in an attempt to avoid loneliness, which often ultimately backfire.

Yup, that's about what I thought.

[abalashov]

Yeah, but when most people think "backfire", they think "painful breakup" backfire. It can get a whole lot worse than that. "Bad dating choices" can be an underwhelming euphemism at times. It all depends on what kind of hornet's nest you get into.

If you marry the wrong person because you dated the wrong person via one of these mechanisms, you can end up in a really dark place.