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Just so you know, men also claim to want a sweet woman who will treat them well and then go crawling after women who treat them like dirt. I have seen it many times. That's why there's a book out there called "Why Men Love Bitches".
What people say they want, rationally, is not always what their irrational emotions actually want in reality.
This is not a male or female thing. People of *both* genders often pathetically follow around the ones who treat them like crap. And it's just because of the challenge and the ego-driven question "how can he/she possibly not like me??" Nothing more, nothing less. Me, I don't go for that and never have - I like guys who seem to adore me. And plenty of people really do like nice people. But I've seen many friends of both genders degrade themselves for someone who continually treated them poorly.
