Why You Can't Let That F-Boy Go

We always want what we don’t have. It might have been Confucius who said that. Or Yoda. Or was it Tiffany Haddish?

- Mel Evans

Whoever it was, they knew the lure of the ‘f**kboy’, the dude who strings you along by giving you what you need (sex, flirty messages, the odd date) to keep your thirst going … but who also repeatedly blows you off and doesn’t treat you respectfully. ‘This guy shows you just enough signs that he’s interested, but in reality, he’s not pursuing you thoughtfully or viewing you as girlfriend material,’ says dating coach Samantha Burns, author of Breaking Up & Bouncing Back.

Through mind-game ‘strategy’ (one weapon: the unanswered text with read receipt), an F-boy can turn a confident, in-control woman into a confused and clingy shadow of her former self.