Keep It Simple

I am going to try to go the rest of the election season without mentioning politics. Well, at least until the end of the Canadian election. I'm not sure I can go a month with all of the material I'm sure to get from "Awe Shucks" but I will give it a try.

So the other day my wife was telling me about a friend of ours who is seeing this guy. I won't go into details because really, when are the details of a story that starts with, "This friend of ours is seeing this guy....." ever different? The end of this all too typical story follows the standard script where the guy is acting "different" and all of a sudden is just being a dick. My response of course is, "so she should just dump him because he just isn't into her anymore." Of course, the logical question here is, "Then why doesn't he just tell her." And this my friends, is the purpose of this blog post.

Listen ladies, consider men lower on the complexity chart than a single-cell organism. Stop trying to complicate their behaviour. The guy just isn't digging you. It really is that simple. Nothing more. Nothing less. He doesn't like you anymore. Sure, there may be hope because sometimes he actually looks at you. However, I never said the guy was a sociopath. I just said he doesn't like you. The male version of the homo sapien (no, I'm not saying he's gay) is the easiest organism to understand if the female version would just stop trying to write a God damn romance novel. Here's how it works: You are dating the guy. It is going well. You are likely having sex. One day you go on a date. He acts weird. Like there's a hockey game playing on a screen behind you. You turn around. There is no screen there. You go home and call your friend. The two of you concoct a story of complexity that explains everything. He goes home hoping you will dump him. The end.

There's a book out there by a gentleman named Greg Behrendt titled, "He's Just Not That Into You." I've never read it. That would just be weird. However, I did see the guy on Oprah (I know, equally as weird as me reading the book). Essentially, it explains my point: if you are dating a guy and he starts acting like he doesn't like you, he doesn't. He wants you to dump him. The more you resist. The more of an asshole he becomes. You being nicer to him equates to the proverbial gas on the fire. So, unless you are a masochist (and I don't judge that sort of stuff) think simple and cut and run. If you are a masochist, tell him – he'll probably start paying attention again.