[lil_sunshine]

Women like bad boys for all the reasons stated in the article. I also think that women like guys that they know good and well their parents warned them about, wouldn't approve of, wouldn't wanna meet, etc. I used to be like that, but I realized that the bad boys can turn the good girls into bad ones. And like Jay-Z said in "Song Cry," 'You can't turn a bad girl good, but once you turn a good girl bad, she's gone forever.' I totally agree with that statement b/c it happened to me. After dealing with my ex (who was my first), I feel like my guard is up all the time and I don't give guys the chance to try to get their foot in the door (not that I used to do that anyway). There are guys that I'm interested in being with, but all I do is think about just being their friend first b/c I'm afraid of rejection. I'm trying to explore all of the options given to me just to be safe rather than sorry. I've always believed that you can figure out who you think would be good bf/husband material by being his friend first. That way, you know about all of their hangups and you can think about whether they would be worth your time in a relationship or whether they'd drain your energy being the mess-ups they became along the way. Some women have a tendency to want to be with a man who they think they can save/change. Women try to stick it out with them to see what's going to happen and when it doesn't work out, they become bitter in different sorts of ways. JMHO....