A Reason Good Women Dump and Divorce Good Men — and How to Prevent It

He’s a good man, so why is he struggling to make relationships stick?

Lee Bidoski
Hello, Love

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen good men kicked to the curb. I look at those women who did the kicking and ask, “What the heck were you thinking?! Why are you wasting a good man?”

In today’s dating market, good men are believed to be rare species. These women might as well have gone over to Yemen and chopped down the Dragon Blood trees…or plucked all the feathers off the white peacocks in Australia.

To toss those precious gems into the waste bin…that just doesn’t make sense.

When I see a phenomenon that doesn’t make sense, I do what any good psychologist would do. I dig around to see what’s going on.

When a woman dumps a good man, she does so fully knowing he’s a good man. That’s why she was with him in the first place.

But knowing he’s a good man…well…she doesn’t want to kick a good man while he’s down. So sometimes she doesn’t tell the good man why she dumped him.

If she doesn’t tell him, he’s left thinking he’s done nothing wrong. If he’s a good man who hasn’t done anything wrong, then clearly she’s the problem.

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Lee Bidoski
Hello, Love

I’m a psychology professor trying to understand and improve our lives. Relationships | Dating | Health | Careers | Sports | Law Enforcement | Military