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Can’t stop comparing

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    Chamomile89
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    A couple of months ago, the guy I was very casually seeing dumped me for another girl. I have gotten over the guy and I am now seeing someone new. However, I can’t stop comparing myself to his new girlfriend. I am a successful graduate fellow, I have many hobbies and interests and am not unattractive, but i can’t get past my obsession that this new girl is “better” than me. She is multilingual, a talented athlete, actress, and writer. She is clever and confident and charming and popular and witty. She is great at a ton of things, while I am only good at a couple. (this is not about looks –She is not significantly more or less attractive than me, just has a very different style and look.)

    I am obsessed with comparing myself to this girl, and she is better than me in just about every way. I can’t stop thinking about it and my self esteem is falling apart. Do you have any advice for me?

    The most ironic part of all this is that the guy who is at the center of all this is a lazy, immature, loser. He is very attractive but not particularly smart or talented, and has absolutely no ambition.

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    One of the things I write about in Think & Date Like A Man, which I strongly recommend you buy and read, [url]https://www.askapril.com/relationship-dating-advice/think-and-date-like-a-man.html[/url], is that it’s not the prettiest woman in the room who gets the guy. It’s not the one with most or the best. It’s the woman who makes the man feel the best about himself! She’s got that “it” factor — and simply put, that means she’s got allure and a mystique about her that makes the man want to chase her and win her over.

    If you look at famous couples (because they don’t have the same privacy as “civilians” so it’s a lot easier to follow them), the boyfriend or husband doesn’t usually leave her for someone prettier or more famous or smarter or richer — he leaves her for someone who has something that makes him feel great about himself.

    You’re looking at this situation from a woman’s point of view, and you have to look at it from his point of view. Something about this other woman makes your ex-boyfriend feel good about himself and that’s why he’s with her. It’s not that she’s “better” than you — it’s that she makes him feel better about himself than he did with you.

    Buy and read Think & Date Like A Man, [url]https://www.askapril.com/relationship-dating-advice/think-and-date-like-a-man.html[/url], so you have a much better understanding of how to get a man — and keep him. It’s going to help you stop comparing, and start focusing on yourself and what you want ….. and how to effectively get it. 😀

    I hope that helps. Let me know how things go, and please follow me @AskAprilcom on Twitter and on Facebook at this link: [url][/url].

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