Take one of the people I have come to know pretty well from my involvement in EMS. She can't hang on to a man, most likely due to a heady blend of immaturity and the weakness and insecurity nearly universal in the past couple of generations. It's a vicious positive feedback cycle. She gets into a relationship, attaches herself to the guy like a remora (a "shark suckerfish" as my daughter calls them) and clings on for dear life until the ride is over. Then, after being dumped, she spirals into a "depression" consisting of self-abuse, believing that the problem is that she is fat (when she is- as a point of fact- skinnier than I am) and ugly until the next guy she jumps in bed with that doesn't discard her the next morning begins paying attention to her, starting the cycle anew. Her insecurities cloud her judgment leaving her unable to accurately assess that the real issue is that she isn't a strong individual emotionally or socially. Hmmm....I wonder why any stable guy would run from a girl like that?
