The Value of Repentance

I've read this, which was rather inexplicably linked to by Tyler Cowen. I was very sympathetic to this woman, for several paragraphs, until she started using profanity.
It's not the profanity itself, it's what it proves; she has not repented. She does not see her own behavior as the primary cause for her current situation, namely not happily married and having children.

Okay, so maybe I am the only guy out there who would actually perk up if you indicated a general desire for motherhood. I doubt it, I think there are other guys who want families too, but just for the sake of argument, let's pretend women have to hide their maternal instincts in order to find a man. My point is, you can! It's easy to lie, omit, and otherwise avoid all mention of children. Move to San Francisco and you won't even run into any children!

But you can't hide the blame.

And, you know, I realize now that I haven't seen much of repentance in the opposite sex. I know I have repented, and other men have told me they have as well. Men use clear language when they talk about repentance. They talk in terms of things that they did and thought, how those things were wrong, and how they are changing the way they think and behave so they won't do them anymore. The funny thing is, just writing that down probably took more words than the average man would use!

Meanwhile, in the plethora of words that women use, I seldom hear the same thing. Sometimes it sounds similar, but it is usually emotionally descriptive instead of accepting responsibility.
It's an important distinction, one a prospective mate may not be conscious of, but when the sudden outbursts of blame start, everyone with half a brain will run for the door. That's not only not good wife material, it's not good mother material either.

I know the personal hell of wanting children, and being stuck in a sad sort of purgatory. I have to wait because, although I have repented and changed my ways for years now, I still suffer from the effects of my sins. I wasted years on bad relationships and made other stupid decisions.

Any yet, I think I am in a fundamentally better place because I am not dragging around the errors in thought and deed that I used to anymore. You can liken my current circumstances to snow on the ground in spring. It's still there, but it's going to melt, and new life will come again.
This is the value of repentance.