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Why Guys Dump Girls They Dig

curiouskait999

February 5, 2021
90 upvotes
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https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/advice/a2969/guys-dump-girls/
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Title Why Guys Dump Girls They Dig
Author

curiouskait999

Upvotes 90
Comments 27
Date February 5, 2021 5:20 PM UTC
(5 years ago)
Subreddit Posted in /r/FemaleDatingStrategy
Original Link https://old.reddit.com/r/FemaleDatingStrategy/comments/ldc29w/why_guys_dump_girls_they_dig/
Archive Link https://theredarchive.com/r/FemaleDatingStrategy/why-guys-dump-girls-they-dig.1193009
https://theredarchive.com/post/1193009
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Comments

[–]curiouskait999FDS Newbie[S] 114 points115 points116 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Old cosmo article with guys explaining their reasons for suddenly breaking up with women. I find myself disappointed in new ways every day.

[–][deleted] 5 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

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[–]SaitschikFDS Disciple 157 points158 points159 points 5 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

All I read is bla bla bla bla bla from emotionally underdeveloped manchildren.

Honestly, I am so over it. All women they "bailed" on can thank the universe. Sad for the women who settled down with this creatures, tho. Past behavior towards other women matters.

[–]HoldingMoonlightFDS Newbie 78 points79 points80 points 5 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

Yup. Whole list is toxic masculinity.

The part about how they can't be seen as a "wuss" and don't have friends who can help them through a break up. Yeah, okay. No sympathy. That's their own doing!

[–]curiouskait999FDS Newbie[S] 70 points71 points72 points 5 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Right. So women are collateral damage because you can’t figure out how to have an emotionally intelligent conversation with your friends?

[–]Inspection-Critical 50 points51 points52 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

This article misses the boat, too: it outlines LVM behavior and then literally says "cut them some slack." No. How about you grow the hell up?

I finished the article thinking many young women will read this and think, "Ok, so how do I stop guys from behaving this way?" YOU DON'T.

[–]Inspection-Critical 17 points18 points19 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yup: startlingly self-aware manchildren acknowledging they're not good for any woman, it's all about them.

[–]bringtwizzlersFDS Newbie 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yep, I feel so bad for the woman my ex married (not really, she chose her awful bed to lie in). He hid me the entire 3 yr relationship. Old habits die hard because guess who didn't even post on social media or tell anyone that he got married lmfao. Meanwhile she is posting it everywhere, and he didn't even like the pics 💀💀

(My friend who is still in his friend circle told me, I have him blocked).

[–]UnstrirringCoffee 65 points66 points67 points 5 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Okay, so all of these reasons are about guys not being really being into the women they dump. Even when a guy is trying to protect his ego by "dumping her first", it still makes his ego more important than having her in his life. Which translates into: "He was never into her in the first place."

[–]Delicious_Comfort000FDS Newbie 21 points22 points23 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

NVM are totally and utterly incapable of love.

[–]oofieoofty 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

This

[–]Lazy-Design1979FDS Newbie 47 points48 points49 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yeah, these guys sound like losers. I'm ashamed to admit that in my late teens and early 20s I read that magazine religiously. Women as a whole will be much better off once we stop caring and prioritizing what men think. Maybe it's optimistic, but I do think we're getting to a tipping point...it feels like more women are realizing that they're better off just fending for themselves with even a mediocre job, instead of dating a guy and having a mediocre job + baggage. You get to a point where you're simply too busy to entertain anything less than a great offer from an even greater guy, and walk dates or coffee aren't going to be worth cancelling plans.

[–]-LitmusTestX-FDS Newbie 30 points31 points32 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

"dropping like flies" manspeak for getting married

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How pathetic.

[–]FluffandRainclouds 31 points32 points33 points 5 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

The end of the article is the only useful part IMO:

Are You About to Be Jilted? Signs that your man's getting ready to bail

His cell phone is always off. He might be spending time with someone he doesn't want you to know about...or he just doesn't want to make himself available.

He's reluctant to make plans. If he hems and haws about committing to anything — even if it's in the semi-near future — he's thinking about making a break for it.

He's meaner. The passive-aggressive breakup is a guy standby. Some men intentionally turn into a-holes to make sure you break up with them.

He's not into sex. He doesn't want to feel connected to you — or he's getting his needs filled somewhere else.

TL;DR: These things are not your problem. Believe a man is NOT into you when he acts lukewarm, confusing, or otherwise makes you question how much he likes you. Next!

[–]glittersparklesglitzFDS Newbie 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

So the one about the phone is interesting. It seems this could go either way. (I’m speaking generally, not specifically if you know the guy is LV or suspect anything already.) I would prefer that a guy is not on his phone while we’re together, but if he isn’t, is it sure to respect? Our hiding something? Just a thought

[–]FluffandRainclouds 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Right, agreed that it is nice when a man is not on his phone when you are together.

But, I think they meant when his phone is off when he is not with you. It is quite suspicious when you keep going to voicemail or the phone keeps ringing 😣

[–]GailaMonsterFDS Newbie 23 points24 points25 points 5 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

This article can be summarized as "men are literally 100% selfish, will dump you the second something better comes along, will dump you if they think they "deserve" more women, will dump you because you ate ice cream and now he's imagining you eating ice cream in excess and getting fat, will dump you if you have any standards at all about their behavior, will dump you if they like you a lot or not enough. Even if they love you "just right" they will still probably dump you." And it's true. unless they are pursuing you, they are taking you for granted (and will pursue anything they perceive as a step up, or even a step over that they haven't had, that is making them chase and thus tingling their competitive monkey brains.)

Man, it's amazing how men acknowledging to women that "men are trash you need to let us be trash with no consequences, let us sleep with all of you THEN we'll maybe marry one (but we'll totatlly be willing to ditch HER if something better comes along, and we don't marry hoes)" is received as for-profit dating advice TO WOMEN and not a therapy prompt for men to get their shit together.

also - if men need to sew their wild oats, and have a VARIETY of women, but then when they want to settle down expect a gal with a low partner count - how exactly is that supposed to work? who exactly do they think will give them a wide variety of partners except the pool of women, who they want to keep a low partner count to serve as a spouse selection pool (after being a jizzrag selection pool)?

This is why men do things like sleep with/fuck women they don't think are attractive enough to wife/date. They separate out these people in their head, whether they acknowledge it or not, and pretend that a marryable woman is somehow a different species of animal from the women they fuck until they're "Ready".

So you know what you do with that information? you BECOME a different species of animal. You don't participate in the nonsense, and you ignore men who you can detect are still of this mindset.

[–]warinmymind94FDS Disciple 21 points22 points23 points 5 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

The title alone is a paradox - if a man actually digs you, really digs you, he wouldn't be dumping you.

LVM want hookups and free bangmaids- when the women/pickme starts requiring more effort (maybe she had a bad day and wants a phone call or you to come to meet her parents over dinner, or she "lashes out" at him for being a slob, etc) the LVM will either gaslight /neg and put her on the backburner but usually he will just dump her and be done, onto his next prospect which requires less effort.

[–]BaffledBazaar 16 points17 points18 points 5 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

That bugged me too. Pickmes will read this and think it's not the right time, but there will BE a right time :) This is the most poignant of the whole piece, imo

We're in Like, Not in Love

It's harsh but true. In fact, it's probably the most common reason we bolt. Just because a guy likes you a lot isn't a guarantee that it will evolve into love. And we're surprisingly intuitive when it comes to figuring out a girl's potential on this front. "I stayed with one woman for two years because the sex was great and she never pushed the issue, but I knew the minute I met her that she wasn't The One," says David, 30.

So why do we invest any time in a relationship that we know will ultimately end? Because we're able to live in the moment for a while and chalk it up to a good experience.

[–]ConturasFDS Newbie 4 points5 points6 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Men can fake pairing without really pair bonding.

[–]Jiou112FDS Newbie 10 points11 points12 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

"Why he kicked you to the curb." Ah yes use language that makes it sound like I'm garbage, that will keep me engaged in this article 😑 Will women just STOP consuming crap like this??

[–]anotherdamnloserFDS Newbie 10 points11 points12 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Cosmo isn’t worthy of wiping our asses. It’s all pickmeisha crap.

[–]One_Olive_8933FDS Newbie 4 points5 points6 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Why guys lead women on

There I fixed the title for you.

[–]randomgirl34861FDS Newbie 3 points4 points5 points 5 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

From the times you chastise us for leaving a wet towel on the bed to those nights you rip through a pint of fudge ripple without stopping to breathe, we file each incident in a mental folder labeled Evidence She'll Change for the Worse

This is one of the most disgusting sentences I’ve ever fucking read

[–]PrettyPoppingFDS Newbie 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yes the real scary things in life concern over mold and mildew and eating ice cream. Meanwhile women are dealing with addicts who spend all their money on the object of fixation.

[–]shaezammFDS Newbie 6 points7 points8 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

“Men get serious with whomever we happen to be dating when we're finally ready to settle down” Really?? Or do you just settle down out of desperation when you realise you aren’t god’s gift to women and you can’t get them all into bed like you thought you could?

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