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I know that some may take what I said as an attack on all women, and angrily defend themselves as if I were insulting them.
I intended no insult, I'm speaking from both my own observation, and that of many of my friends over the years, male and female. While my relationships have definitely changed me for the better, they haven't changed me into a different person. Women, in large numbers, seem to feel differently. Single men may as well wear a "Leper" sign, I am not at all kidding. When I'm in a relationship, I feel like I'm wearing a shirt that says, "totally available, and probably rich."
This is nature, I figure. Please don't lecture me about how, "only the bad girls you don't want act this way", because it simply isn't true. Many women respond to subtle cues, whether they like it, or realize it, or not, and it doesn't mean they're skanks who only want somebody else's man. This generalization cannot be true, because, as I mentioned before, even with no outward sign of being in a relationship, you women, as a rule, find us more attractive if we are in one, like magic.
