story of my life

miX_ · 10 months

I never noticed the feel coppin' in the third panel before.

hamiltongirl · 10 months

The reverse of this is the guy at the end saying "It's going to be such a shame when I dump you because I haven't "lived" enough and want to bang lots of random chicks before I settle down"

jumpbreak5 · 10 months

I'm not sure if I can explain this correctly, but I feel like I understand something and I want to get it out.

I don't think that the girl just likes assholes. More accurately, and as I've seen stated in this thread, she just likes someone who sometimes doesn't care. But I don't think that's exactly it either.

What I've started to discover is that from the perspective of a "nice guy", being as good to the girl as you can possibly be is the best thing you could ever do for her. I should know, I've been that guy.

And if every single action you take towards her is, to the best of your ability, the best thing you could do, and she still leaves you, she is a bitch. The fact is, that kind of makes sense from the nice guy perspective. I mean come on, you did everything for her, and she left for some other guy who simply didn't. What the hell?

The thing I love about this comic is that it's always spoken to me in a way I couldn't really place. But I think I get it now. The subtle but important part of the way this is drawn is the way that they cuddle. The way that, in the tiniest but still noticeable way, he has to grab her, has to appreciate her, has to have her. Of course that seems good at first, but the guy isn't thinking outside the context of the relationship. He needs her more than she needs him.

When you're too happy with someone and don't know how to deal with it, you go so far to make them happy that you strangle your own life. But you don't care, because you're doing things for her, so it's all ok. But you're strangling her life too. She doesn't want a puppy, or a servant, she wants a boyfriend. Someone who will live their own life and add to hers.

The reason it took me this long to figure this out is that you have to see it from the other side. I'm sort of in a relationship now where she wants nothing more than to make me happy. I could just sit there and she'd try to make my life better. And I always thought I wanted that. But I don't.

I think nice guy syndrome is such a problem because girls can't talk and guys can't hear. Girls can't express the way in which they want guys to have their own life, just as it's difficult for me to express it. and guys can't listen to what girls want, because it's so damn hard to understand why she wouldn't want them to just give them everything they can.

TL;DR Nobody's wrong here. She's not a bitch, you're not broken. It's just one giant, annoying catch 22.

ShinyCoins · 10 months

Here is the link to the page on DeviantArt, and here is the artist page for anyone looking. Can't believe no one has thought to put this up yet.

srsface · 10 months

M: It's so great that you're smart and opinionated.

M: You have such a great personality. No woman has ever challenged me the way you do.

M: I feel bad for you, though.

F: Mmm?

M: It's gonna hurt like a sonofabitch when I decide to leave you for a younger, skinnier woman who makes me feel smart in comparison.

F: ಠ_ಠ

My point is, if you, as a man, are reading that exchange, and you're thinking, "Hey, it's not ALL men! I don't do that, and neither do my friends! This offends me!", then you now understand how women on Reddit feel when they see this shit.

CorkscrewPastafarian · 10 months

I love the art style, but I'm really getting sick of the "all girls are manipulative bitches" tone. Sure, some girls are assholes. Some guys are assholes. Is the only place you want to direct your creative energy toward is ripping on one side or the other? Or have you just been listening to too much Dashboard Confessional?

BTfromSunlight · 10 months

I hate this characterization and I've always found it to be a bit unfair. Women are allowed to change their minds about who they want to be with. It doesn't make them a bitch. It happens. Just because a guy is "nice" doesn't mean there can't be legitimate reasons a woman might decide to leave him.

LordDerpington · 10 months

I've been nothing but an attentive, romantic nice-guy with my wife, from the time we started dating till now, and we've never had this problem. We spend most nights of the week together, but we have separate interests too, so we don't feel smothered (examples, in January I'm going to a Magic the Gathering GP tournament for a weekend, she's happy for me. A few weeks ago she went out of town with some of her girlfriends, I just did my own thing that weekend like an adult). If our relationship required me faking douchebaggery in some manipulative mindgame instead of honest, open communication I would have proudly joined the ranks of the forever alones long ago.

dr_dazzle · 10 months

ITT: men who think it's always their SO's fault.

creepystalker69 · 10 months

That's not funny at all.

reverie_ · 10 months

As a girl, I can safely say any girl who does this shit is an idiot. Personally, I love the romantic "nice" guys. I have zero patience or tolerance for "bad boys" aka bullies and assholes. No sane girl does.

themuffins · 10 months

aww, an absolutely objectively perfect guy blames how stupid a woman is for leaving him. He couldn't possibly have anything wrong with him, it's totally just that bitches like assholes. We call this Nice Guy(TM) syndrome.

bigbabyS · 10 months

This comic and the other one by this guy annoy me. For one thing, they're not funny. The truth is that women sometimes do leave their "nice guy" boyfriends, but it is usually because the boyfriends turn into needy little bitches. And the fact is needy bitches are about as attractive to women as fat girls are to men.

You needy bitch men all get off on the idea that the women you want would be happier with you than they are with the men they actually choose to be with, it's just that they are too stupid to see it. But the truth is that they won't be happy with you at all, except as a friend. For fucking, they want a confident man. And being a confident man is not the same as being an asshole, by the way. You little needy bitches can be the biggest assholes of all, if you think about it.

Camerongilly · 10 months

You can be a nice, romantic guy without being a doormat. Women don't stay with doormats.

FuzzLightBeard · 10 months

you know you're lonely when you go back to look at this 4 times because you miss cuddling men so much

crapshot · 10 months

Nobody likes a sap

dclowd9901 · 10 months

Fuck you, Reddit. My relationship is going fine, and I'll continue to enjoy it until it meets its untimely demise, so fuck off.

Live for the day, assholes. Everything ends. The point is to enjoy it until it does.

finalcut19 · 10 months

I've already seen two comics in this style today, so I'm going to assume they're by the same cartoonist. If they are, he's painfully sexist.

brodega · 10 months

This post really fires up my feelings of male victimhood.

RobGron · 10 months

ugh more friendzone crap? get something straight, girls don't like assholes. They like guys who are themselves. not some sappy sorry douchebag who lives for them. act like a friend you will be a friend. if she doesn't want to be in a relationship holy shit talk to someone else.

JohnnyBsGirl · 10 months

This made me cry at work because I did this. I'm a bitch.

stillnotking · 10 months

The problem isn't that you are "too nice". The problem is never that you are too nice, unless the girl is a psycho, in which case you dodged a bullet.

rytis · 10 months

yeah, she did that to me too, and then married him, and then dumped him, and became a divorce lawyer.

mambypambyland · 10 months

It's a shame that you lack any confidence whatsoever that you feel this way. Maybe if you manned the fuck up then women wouldn't always be leaving you. But it looks like you feel like you will be a whiny bitch for the rest of your life, and so it shall be.

jayron202 · 10 months

STOP BEING SO CLINGY...MAYBE?

dyllybones · 10 months

Boo-fucking-hoo. (HI! I'm collecting downvotes!)

raging_asshole · 10 months

Wow, is the guy who draws these some seriously butthurt heartbroken softie or what? I've seen a few images now by this same guy with the same "waaaaaaaah, girls are mean" theme.

B00sauce · 10 months

Why the fuck do I read the comments for these types of posts?! I'm normally a pretty confident guy, but now I'm second guessing every fucking thing I've done in regards to her.

imakepeopleangry · 10 months

In my experience you have to balance the affection and romance you give with equal proportions of ignoring her and sometimes acting like you don't care. I absolutely hate the fact that it works and I wish I didn't have to do it but if I have to choose between ignoring my girl a couple days a week and her straying and fucking some douchebag just for the "thrill" I'll choose to be a dick every once in a while.

I'm in a relationship currently where this has not been necessary but I'm waiting for the signs to begin showing up and I'll have to become that guy again.

Ninja Edit: One example; In a past relationship my then girlfriend called me out on my behavior and asked me why I was so nice 90% of the time and the other 10% I'm an asshole? My response to her verbatim: "Do you notice that the only nights you want to hang out with me are on the days during which I completely ignored you? If I proactively ask you if you want to hang out that night you find an excuse to do something else. If I ignore you you seek me out to hang out together. I don't want to have to be a dick to make you want to hang out with me."

She was shocked to realize she was doing this.

2akurate · 10 months

The thing is, these "nice guys" which unfortunately im also. Become clingy and emotional and stuff, and this behaviour comes from a lack of self respect and self love.

If you are a confident man and you are with a girl you will not always look at her or smile at her, you will simply be yourself like the way you are with your male friends. You will kiss her sometimes but you will maintain your balance. You don't always cling to her unconsciously of a fear of loosing her, you simply live life normally without any extremes. A down to earth guy is what woman want and if they like the fact that you are sappy and clingy then they have some issues themselves. They probebly need alot of attention and need outward acceptance of who they are. The relation becomes a bouding of two parasites that both living off eachother only to make themselves feel more happy.

It is very easy to get into a relationship for personal psychological reasons, the relation then turns out to be some kind of medium to cope with you own insuficiencies.

Thats why enlightened people (people that are balanced and very happy) always say that a person should first go within himself and get things straight so that he can start accepting and loving himself, only if you love yourself can you love someone else. If you don't love yourself a relationship becomes this parasitic organism that you cling to for your own benefit.

How can you give REAL love when you don't even love yourself?

Requizen · 10 months

Most painful upvote I've given. Thanks for dregging up memories :(

kowalski71 · 10 months

As a "manipulative bad boy" I've always felt a little bad about this. I'm not malicious about it, I just don't compromise and rearrange my life for girls and I take a lot of me time.

zippeh · 10 months

sigh

bananaseepeep · 10 months

wearing clothes while cuddling? disgusting.

jmanon · 10 months

It sounds like you have not internalized Einstein's definition of insanity.

thelittleking · 10 months

Yes, because this is all women.

EhWardo · 10 months

I am too lazy at the moment, but I thought about making 800 accounts to downvote you to negative karma bc this shit is reposted every week.

pomegranati · 10 months

they make cuddling look so easy especially with that one arm underneath the girl. They must have a mattress with a hole in it or something.

ladyofchaos · 10 months

I'm a woman and this is the story of my life. :(

BenoitWaffle · 10 months

Normal guys who don't blame girls for getting dumped most not come on reddit.

pablothe · 10 months

Yesterday I went to a hotel room with y girlfriend, after two hours she said, "we need to talk", we broke up, I came to reddit to stop thinking about it, damn you reddit damn you :(

mandano · 10 months

I think this is so much bullshit. People leave relationships for all sorts of reasons. And of course you're going to hate anyone your ex dates after you. Plus, when one has a rebound, it's with someone you want to fuck short term, not necessarily someone you want to date.

So no, she didn't leave you cuz you were nice, and she didn't leave you for a bad-boy. If you'd stop being such a smug narcissist, maybe you could figure out where the relationship actually went wrong.

Hekki27 · 10 months

"Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks" - Gandhi

heyiambob · 10 months

Story. Of. My. Fucking. Life. This has happened so much that I have given up being romantic and have tried to be a non-caring asshole. It doesn't work for me fucking tit shit poopy.

denbez · 10 months

fight ignorance. downvote misogyny.

360walkaway · 10 months

That's when you poke her butthole with your middle finger and say "I can be bad too..."

LexusNexus · 10 months

Oh, God. Not this again.

I was the worlds nicest guy, and they ruined my life for no reason!

Honestly. If this really is the "story of your life", maybe you should take a look at things again. I mean, you are the constant in this equation. Just sayin'.

867-5308 · 10 months

Are we gonna post all of this guy's bitter comics now? If so, please get it over with...

Edit: This.

I_TYPE_IN_ALL_CAPS · 10 months

WHEN DID /R/FUNNY BECOME A CIRCLEJERK OF TEARFUL, SELF-PITYING LOSERS?

rockytheboulder · 10 months

Just happened to me last month,I feel your pain. I wish it upon nobody.

free_range_veal · 10 months

story of my life

ElenaxFirebird · 10 months

I read all of the comments to see if I could find the source for this comic. Instead I got a bunch of people crying about their relationships.

-_- I am disappoint, reddit.

Nomnomnomitron · 10 months

Anyone know the artists page?

KoopaTroopaG · 10 months

THIS ISN'T FUNNY!

SuspiciousQuotes · 10 months

"you're a romantic" ?

sgtpppr · 10 months

So, to sum up, guy dates slutty girl and can't figure out why she acts slutty. Some guys just like to play the victim and blaming someone else for their own bad choices removes their personal responsibility in the outcome. The irony is that this ensures it will happen again and again.

funny

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