Yeah, it’s not happening.

This one goes out to my nice nerd brothers.

When a girl has a history of dating jerks, she’s going to keep it up. She may express interest in you, and likely will, but that first date will be the only date unless she’s actively been single for a while and worked out the issues that had her dating those guys to begin with.

I know. We’ve all been there. The first date seemed awesome. And then you never heard back. You did nothing wrong, and your female friends will say you did it all completely right, but people rarely break out of their relationship and friendship habits. It takes recognition of the problem, the pattern, the cause, and the will to change it.

The dating world would be a much better place were we all aware of this, and all aware of the progress we have and haven’t yet made. Alas, such self-recognition the realm of fiction, and we nerds continue to try and save girls who have a history of dating jerks who don’t want to be saved nearly as much as they seem to imply.