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Women Prefer Bad Boys for One Simple Reason
And it's not about what you're thinking.
I've met tons of brilliant women throughout my life, and they all had one thing in common: a stinky boyfriend.
I'm serious. It may be fate, karma, but that's just the way it is. And at first, I wondered why? Maybe they weren't bad guys, and I was just jealous.
So I started asking them why they had such disastrous relationships (when they ended).
These are real cases of real people whose names I will change for obvious reasons.
My friend Maria
She is a successful businesswoman, running a real estate company in the capital of Spain.
For a long time, she dated a policeman with whom she bought an apartment, and when they were going to get married, she found him using the bed of the new flat for the first time with the neighbor.
To understand my friend's fondness for authority figures, you have to return to her childhood. She was a child with an abusive father from whom she was saved by the police, who rescued her from her father's clutches.
My friend grew up in an institution for minors in the community of Madrid, and when she turned 18, her mother swore to her that she had ended herโฆ