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It wasn't that I wasn't pretty enough, or that I had a bad personality- in fact, I did everything I could to try to make a work, but it just felt like they were losing interest in short periods of time, or were not willing to put work into the relationship.
How could a girl like me get cheated on, abandoned, and dumped, over and over again? I would read relationship guides from the Internet, and borrow books from the library, buying the new books when I had the money to spare for them- but no matter what I did, I felt inadequate.
Most of the time, the articles and texts I read required me to change who I was.
I couldn't become the high maintenance, snobby chick they described.
I'm down to earth, but I'm independent.
Frustrated, loveless, and exhausted, I had tried everything.
I had tried to do everything a guy wanted, and this only resulted in him stepping all over me like a doormat.
He had everything he could possibly want in our relationship, but he still wanted more from other girls, and he cheated.
Was I not good enough for him? Then, I tried to be cautious, and avoided opening up.
I had a series of short lived relationships that went nowhere.
I wanted the kind of guy that my girlfriend had- dependable, eager to please, but charming without being too controlling.
I wasn't attracting these types of guys, so I couldn't even begin relationships with them.
I was stuck in the same rut over and over again.
Like most women, though, I have a support group of female friends who pick me up when a bad relationship knocks me down.
But even they got a little tired of the same thing, and having to always comfort me by saying, "He was a jerk, you'll find someone else.
" Deep down, I knew it wasn't completely the guy's fault, or mine- it was just another bad relationship.
My friends did not know what had really happened, and they could not give me good advice, though I appreciated their words of comfort.
But with an intensive look at just what was going wrong, I was able to change the way I dated.
My relationships were longer, and I could finally date confidently.
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