The True Reasons Nice Guys Don’t Get the Girl

Elizabeth Demolat
6 min readApr 8, 2020
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You’ve seen it repeated over and over in movies, tv shows, and books. You’ve heard your own friends complain, and you’ve seen a thousand sad stories on social media.

Supposedly, women don’t want nice guys. Even Rory from Gilmore Girls dropped Dean for bad boy Jess.

Based on cultural influences, the question arises: What chance does a nice guy have when…

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Elizabeth Demolat

Lover of books, adventures, friends, dancing, muffins, France, camp fires, and Ole Miss. And, I teach.