I was a late bloomer, and went through it later than most. I dealt with this from 32 onward. Now moving into late thirties, I know what I want but I also realize the need for compromise. I've come to realize that wanting and needing something doesn't mean you are going to get it. Also, world changes. More people are independent and are expected to handle more of their own needs without depending on a partner. What men and women expect of themselves and relationships today has changed.
Although a woman may want more from her relationship with a male partner, a partner may not be ready or able to meet those needs even if they are in the same age group. Many may not even believe that it's a partner's responsibility to meet those needs. Some partners believe it is the individual, family, or friends' responsibility to meet emotional needs, not them.
Today, people don't see themselves as responsible for someone's emotions. Rather, they believe meeting social, physical, or financial needs are understandable but anything beyond that is too much added expectation. Emotional needs are treated as signs of neediness or inability to handle one's own emotions. So, beware of expecting partners to meet those needs. Even if they care about you, they may not see it as their responsibility to meet those particular needs. So, yeah, know you are, be comfortable with it but realize each partner has different needs and wants and may value each other's needs differently.
What I have noticed in the social conditioning of Western culture is a tendency to focus on money, sex, and power/status as the be all or end all of everything while ignoring social and emotional aspects of a relationship, leading to poor communication skills, less empathy, and gross insensitivity. Relationships are more like competitions than partnerships. People are not focused on buidling long term relationship skills, only getting what they can in the short term. We've essentially lost that wholistic focus to relationships that goes beyond the temporal or superficial.
In other words, if we are going to have the partners we want, our society has to retrain itself to focus on more than the material or immediate gratification approach to relationships, and develop traits that benefit development of healthy relationships for partners in the long term, so that we are not jumping from one relationship to the other to have those needs met.