Beauty vs. the Beast

The dating world is dog-eat-dog.

It used to be... that women could all turn and point their finger at men (those dogs!) for making dating so difficult.

Men:

• lie


• hide their emotions


• AND tend to have more sexual partners than clean socks

BUT..times have changed and many women can see themselves fitting this description more and more (just replace "clean socks" with "tubes of lip gloss"...see it now?).

Playing Victim:

Men I have dated have all asked the same questions about this. “What’s wrong with women these days?” they demand.

Many of us women have spent large portions of our dating life playing "the victim." During my time in this stage, I allowed men to abuse me emotionally and mentally while I held my breath for my happily ever after.

We have all found ourselves in a situation like that, interventions screeching to a halt with the cry . . . “But I love him!”

What has changed now is that we have dusted the dirt off our stilettos, covered our scars with foundation and put up a wall between men and our emotions. This makes it incredibly easy for us to do all of the same things to men that we have complained about before and level the playing field. My stories of the flip will have your jaw DROP.

The princess and the fire-breathing dragon have joined forces against Prince Charming, building a wall of fire between them.

I wonder how Sleeping Beauty will end now…