An Amendment.

So, in re-reading my post and getting the tiniest rash of shit from Boyfriend and my sister.....I will acknowledge that PERHAPS I sound a little bitter toward men. (And since I just heard that Boo’s boyfriend is a reader of this site……let me assure Boo’s ex-boyfriend that I didn’t pee on his sofa……that was a joke...)

Dear Readers…..let me assure you, I’m not bitter toward mean. I love men. Boyfriend is a wonderful man. The BEST man. My father is an excellent man. My sister married a good man. I work with some lovely men. A lot of my friends are married to awesome men.

I am, however, bitter about Break-Ups. I’m over bad break-ups and they way men behave during breakups. Here are a few break-up stories from my closest girlfriends.

1. One friend was abandoned at a restaurant during a break-up. Her boyfriend just went to the bathroom and never came back. He called her from a cab and broke up with her while she was receiving her entrée.
2. Another friend received a text message in the middle of the night while she was sleeping that it “just wasn’t working.”
3. Another friend was told by her boyfriend’s *friend* that her boyfriend was moving to New York (already had his apartment and plane ticket) and he hadn’t told her.
4. One friend’s husband left her because he was having an affair. The catch was that he denied having the affair and told her it was over because my friend was “too superficial.”
5. One girlfriend’s boyfriend called her from a bar and notified her that being around the really cute girls in the bar made him realize he wasn’t attracted to her anymore.
6. One girlfriend was forced to break-up with her boyfriend after she walked in to his bedroom and found him receiving a blow job from the neighbor.
7. One friend was broken up with on a Post-It……wait, no, that was Carrie Bradshaw.

Do you see where I’m going? I just don’t understand why these men, who are by all other accounts good, attentive boyfriends, must behave so badly during break-ups. (I know, I know, women behave badly too, but I’m a woman and today I’m representin’.) Is it so far from the realm of possibility to treat the break-up with the same level of respect as the relationship? Is that too much to ask?

I’m frustrated that my girlfriends going through this. I’m tired of seeing my girlfriends become more and more gun shy and more and more reserved in their approach to dating because they have been hurt. I am bummed out that my single girlfriends are fantastic, beautiful women and they are forced to date not-so fantastic men. I’m annoyed because I know A LOT of single, fantastic HOT women, and not one single man to set them up with.

So, no…..not bitter. Just fed up.