Excuses

As I was walking through the halls of my office building, I overheard two women having the following conversation about their friend and her challenges with dating:

Woman #1: "Does Suzy date a lot?"
Woman #2: "I guess. She goes out on dates, but nothing really pans out."
Woman #1: "So what's the problem?"
Woman #2: "She has a really hard time finding the right guy. She's successful, smart, and does really well, so she has a hard time finding guys that measure up."

So this made me wonder why do so many successful and smart women have such a hard time finding the right guy? We all seem to know these "great women" without boyfriends. Why are there so many of them out there? And yet, there's an odd scarcity of "great men" out there.

It seems odd to me that you rarely hear the opposite scenario. You never hear guys say, "He's successful, smart and rich, but he just has a hard time finding the right girl." Okay, so there's the RARE occasion that we hear about such a mythical guy, but the reality is a guy like that never has a hard time finding a girl. Especially in New York, on the rare occasion that an Investment Banker is out from work, women flock to him like... (well, you know the saying.)

So what's wrong with these wondefully successful women? Are their expectations too high? Are men intimidated by them? Or are all these just excuses?