What women don't want to hear about your old girlfriend
Dating is like selecting a grocery cart -- we know someone used it before us, we just try not to think about how many hands before ours gripped that handle and set forth after the perfect kosher dill.
But even if your relationship is safely on the road to Serious Town, there are things that women will be less than thrilled to learn about the last female to ride shotgun. Apart from hearing that she was Upton’s less-plain doppelganger, the more meaningful stuff can be the killer. For instance if she was
- A Do-Gooder: We generally look up to women who help obliterate childhood hunger, establish literacy programs or bring life-saving vaccines to third world villages... Generally.
And finally...
So where’s the sweet spot between still-goes-shopping-with-your-sister, and a-restraining-order-is-all-that-connects-us? Don’t bring up your ex unsolicited, but when we do ask about her, be forthright. We just want to hear the basic, reasonable truths that your ex was important to you at one time, but now that time is over and your love is way past its sell-by date.