Sometimes love just ain't enough

Oh, the pain of breaking up...for women. I have a theory. Women are stupid and pathetic. We really are. We are often addicted to the comfort of relationships. When things become so blaringly, obviously, patently incapable of working out, we work that much harder to try to work it out. Women just can't seem to accept that two people may not be "right" for each other. When things don't work out, women view that failed relationship as a personal failure. We feel that there was something missing within us which caused our significant other to give up and stop trying. We feel as if we will never, ever possibly find anyone again with whom we feel so comfortable and whom we love so much. Therefore, it is just not worth starting over. It is far more worth it to cause ourselves repeated, continuous hearbreak and pain by incessantly beating a dead horse - after the man has already given up.

This is why women never have the upper-hand - the wonderful upper-hand that we all long to have in our relationships. Though both man and woman may acknowledge within their logical minds that breakup is the best option, and, in fact, the woman may be more unhappy in the relationship than the man - it never ends in woman's favor. We irrationally flip it around so that we end up hurt and pathetic by saying, "I know all these things are horrible about our relationship, but I care enough about you to overlook those things and try to work them out through time. Our LOVE can make it work." And the man is thinking, "Are you crazy, bi-atch?" Well, maybe not so much in ebonics...but along those lines, nonetheless.

Of course, men feel post-breakup sadness as well. However, their depression is mostly a result of the thought that their woman will eventually be with someone else. Men, similar to dogs, piss a circle around their girlfriends and ex-girlfriends alike. It doesn't matter if he doesn't want her, he doesn't want anyone else to have her.

I'm obviously speaking in generalizations, people. Surely they are individual men and women out there who are nothing like what I've described. But my personal experiences, my observations of others' experiences, and the research showing that women suffer from depression in overwhelming numbers as compared to men, all point to support my theory - that women are indeed stupid and pathetic.