Thoughts From Guys On Our IM: The Appeal Of High-Maintenance Women
Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry
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11:30AM, Tuesday October 14th 2008
I watched “The Real Housewives Of Atlanta” this weekend and was blown away by the rampant materialism, excess, and over-the-top maintenance enjoyed by the stars of the show. Most of the women are married, or have boyfriends, who revel in their traditional feminine shallowness, and while these women may be EXTREME examples, I have often noticed that some of the most pain-in-the-ass women I know have nice, normal, sweet guys dying at their feet. IS there an appeal to high-maintenance women? And what the hell is it? Do I need to spend three hours getting ready to go to the gym in order to find a nice new man these days? I chatted up the guys on my IM to find out.
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Anon
wrote on October 14 2008 @ 11:50 am: [report]
What about the girl who has her boyfriend trained to wash her dishes, when he doesn’t live with her, and they weren’t dirtied by him? To the point that he apologizes if he forgets to do them, even if he was never asked?
And the girl who won’t even pretend to listen to what her boyfriend is talking about, or act interested? If he’s explaining something to her about what he’s studying in school, and she lets him go on for quite a while, then just interrupts and says, sorry, I wasn’t even listening because i have no interest in science stuff. I live with a girl like that. What guy would do that? Why?
Simosa
wrote on October 14 2008 @ 06:53 pm: [report]
OMG - THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING TO ME. I’ve been dumb on this all of my dating life. F me!
ClatieK
wrote on October 14 2008 @ 08:57 pm: [report]
Anon—two words for that: Mommy Issues.
shiny
wrote on October 18 2008 @ 02:16 am: [report]
interesting.
gooya
wrote on October 30 2008 @ 08:44 am: [report]
i’m with ClatieK—mommy issues!
i’m so disappointed to learn that the cliche is largely true in available men over the age of 25—
apparently i am, “too together.” WTF.
so, i am finding the MEN to be the high maintenance, logistically, and emotionally nowadays. perhaps an article on this aspect?