You meet a great guy and you can’t help but feel a little worried that your feelings won’t be reciprocated. In an attempt to protect yourself, you look at the ‘clues’ in his behavior and try to figure out what everything means. If something seems like a bad sign, you focus on solving it, stat! You pick apart his texts and e-mails, you debate endlessly over what to respond and whether an emoticon would seem cheesy or cute, you spend hours talking to your friends about why he’s taking so long to text back and what it means and what he might be up to. You replay every moment of every interaction with him, keeping tally of the signs he likes you and signs he doesn’t. It’s exhausting. I’m exhausted just thinking about it! The truth is, 90% of relationship problems wouldn’t exist if women would stop obsessing and analyzing and just go with it.

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