Its been my experience that they're all that way, when it come to relationships.

The most recent one involved someone I was very close with and have actually grown even closer to since, in a friendship sense. Really, really just a great all-around girl. Known her for a very long time and there were always hints of interest both ways, although she was already involved and I respected that. Well, the previous relationship fell apart and to make a long story short I spoke up and got shot down on the runway. Her choice? A 40 year old douchebag who was on a fuck-spree with every woman he met during the same timeframe. Not surprisingly, he had his fun and dumped her a month later, and she went back to her previous bad relationship.

That was the most recent, and by far most painful, in a long string of losses to the douchebag type. It also followed a couple years after a nearly identical situation with someone else that had caused me to give up on women once before. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Not gonna be a third time.