Does being mean really keep them keen?
Social media is awash with the idea that the key to a successful (heterosexual) relationship is being a mean girlfriend. This expresses an understandable frustration with the state of modern dating, but the truth is more complicated

“What do you want?”, a friend of mine spat as she answered the phone to an unidentified caller. We were in the park at the hottest point of the day, with friends old and new. “Who is she on the phone with?”, I asked the girls beside me. “Her boyfriend, obviously”, they said, laughing in unison. “Who else would she speak to like that?”
I obviously don’t know the ins and outs of my friend’s relationship with her boyfriend – she could be rightfully pissed offhellip;
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