[Mustangmom2k]

WOW!! I don't know where to start! Belle and Mr50 are both DEAD ON!!! FWIW, I'm married to the all-time "Mr. Nice Guy", and have been for 21 years. I've never once regretted it, either, and I knew then that I was making the smartest move of my life.

I watched most of my peers date and/or marry jerks and live to regret it. They wanted the excitement of a bad-a$$ (that's what they told me later when I asked what they ever saw in the guy). My sister is the same way. She's on her 2nd divorce, and honestly, neither time has been her fault other than she picked complete jerks to begin with. Long story short, one was a complete egomaniac, and the other was a macho jacka$$ who liked to take a few swings at her. AND SHE PUT UP WITH IT!!! I've listened to literally HOURS and HOURS of her crying and wondering what went wrong. How could he treat her so badly? How can she fix it? Etc, etc, yadda, yadda, whine, whine.

I keep telling her that she chooses the wrong type of guy, and that she needs to find a "nice" guy. Her reply? Get this...she says she has trouble respecting and looking up to a "nice" guy. A nice guy doesn's seem "strong". I say RUBBISH!!!

Gawd, I'm gonna go off on a tanget. This hits me so close to home, as it has now affected my daughter as well. She has been hanging around the ghetto a$$-holes lately, and I'll tell you folks exactly what I tell her. KEEP IT UP AND YOU'LL SURELY LOSE!! I'm gonna try to keep this short because it very much hurts me just to think that my daughter is about to ruin her life completely. But that's another story.

Anyway, to all you nice guys, DON'T EVER CHANGE! There ARE gals out there who recognize and VALUE your traits. Really! We're the smart ones! Don't let the (admittedly) majority of stupid, dumb-a$$ skank women make you something you're not and shouldn't be!

And the fact that most people's idea of a family or relationship is what they see on Jerry Springer doesn't help! Garbage in, garbage out, as they say.