Word: davilman
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...Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman have written a book - with the help of 54 other women. In What Was I Thinking: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories they write of the men they have dated, the men they have dumped, the men they should have dumped and the men they wish they had never met. There's the woman whose porn-star boyfriend dumps her for being too promiscuous, the college girl who dates a fanatical Barbie fan, the woman who overhears her date calling her fat and dozens of other guys who just weren't good enough. Davilman and Dubelman talk...
...women avoid dating bad boyfriends? Davilman: My belief is that people tell you who they are in the first five minutes. Most people have expectations and needs and an idea of how they want their life to be, and they will only hear what they want to hear to make someone else fit into their idea. Sometimes you go through this entire relationship only to find out that you should have paid attention to the person they told you they were in the first place. You ignored...
...think of taking submissions from guys? Dubelman: We originally tried to make it more mixed, but all the men's stories that came in were the same: "She was so hot, but she was crazy." There wasn't a whole lot of depth to that. Davilman: Those were their submissions. They were like, "Here is what was wrong with her: this and this and this and this." And you get to the end and there's still no acceptance of responsibility or any self-awareness...
...your book didn't come off as being that awful. Dubelman: They're not awful! Davilman: They're not! Dubelman: We love men! Davilman: They just weren't right for those women, that's all. I'm really glad the book didn't devolve into male-bashing. It's really about the women and the things they didn't see. Dubelman: Or saw and ignored. Davilman: Or couldn...