40cakes | If You're Just Not That Into Me, Then Just Go Away

Due to recent events with hometown friends, I've been thinking about the many douchebag ex-boyfriends we have amongst us. When I was breaking up with Rob, my mom gave me a copy of He's Just Not That Into You to read. I resisted at first, because I didn't need the book - I wasn't one of those girls* who needed a trendy self-help book to wake her up from a bad relationship. I was wrong, as we all know.**

And after breaking up, I felt like such a loser. He just wasn't into me and that's why he was a filthy, miserable jerk - he was trying to make ME break up with HIM and I was the sad sack who just didn't get it. But then. "No. Wait a minute. I tried breaking up with him LOADS of times! Every time, he just convinced me that I was blowing the situation^ out of proportion and it wasn't worth breaking up over and I obviously just had PMS!" Similarly, I had a friend who was with a guy for YEARS who had been cheating on her for the entirety of the relationship (unbeknownst to her until the relationship ended). And when she tried to break it off with him, he convinced her that her waning feelings were part of any relationship, and that the two of them would soldier on together.

So I've been wondering, where the Hell is that chapter, Greg? "When He's Just Not That Into You, But Won't Get Out Of You"? About the guy who doesn't return your calls, doesn't do anything nice for you, is in relationships with other people, but still doesn't want you to leave. Discuss.

* "Those girls" as defined as a perhaps fictional group of females containing a specific trait you deny you have or who do things you pretend you don't do.
** Or I hope you know. The current boyfriend is Kirk. Thanks for keeping up with the recaps.
^ The situation: Any variety of happenings that could all be boiled down to the same factor - Rob being a douchebag.