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Surely it depends on what woman. If you want to stay at home, cook, raise the kids and have dinner and the slippers ready when your man walks through the door, you'd want a cowboy. If you're a ball-breaker of a lady though, with her own career aspirations and an (perhaps only fleeting) interest in children but less so in nappy-changing, a metrosexual who'll give you a hand with the school run will be infinitely more useful.

So which stereotype of woman are you? Then you'll know what stereotype of man suits you.

When you find it difficult to pigeon-hole yourself though, you'll soon realize the difficulty in pigeon-holing what type of man women really want. Because the truth is (and pardon me for breaking that essential rule of style and starting my sentence with 'because') - we want it all.

Come on ladies, admit it. You want a man who will bring home the money so if you don't want to work, you don't have to. So you can spend time with your little darlings and sort out the matching decor in your home (pink scatter cushions with lavendar walls don't really go, do they? how can you invite friends over when you've got a clashing combo like that?). So you can be a 'lady who lunches'. At the same time you'll want a supportive man, who listens to your problems, work or personal. Who understands how important your goals are and that he couldn't possibly wear white socks under his brown sandals (now THAT essential rule of style should NEVER be broken!). Someone who understands why moisturising is a necessity and will have dinner (and maybe even the slippers) ready when YOU walk through the door.

At the end of the day, we want someone who can understand us, who will be there for us when we're down and celebrate our highs with us. It's time to move past narrow definitions and acknowledge that as our role as women change, the roles of men change too. And acknowledge that really, what we want is someone like us, but with slightly different anatomy.

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