When it comes to Love, if you're like most women,you've been deceived... and maybe more deeply than you've realized.

You've been misled.

Tricked.

Lied to, even.

Not necessarily by men (though of course that happens)-- but lied to about men.

Lied to, by well-meaning people, about how men think and feel... and about how to create and nurture true passion and true connection.

So that sense of connection you've waited for has stayed just out of reach. Or, worse, it's been there--and then fizzled out.

Now, despite what some people have told you, you know there's no Prince Charming, there's no savior on horseback coming to sweep you away to a castle. You know that, and you're okay with it.

But isn't there something better? Something better than you've had so far? Something better than what you see around you all the time--all the "happy" couples, the look of that woman who insists that everything's fine, but who you can sense is as bored and edgy and frustrated as a tigress in a cage?

Hasn't there always been the suggestion--faint, but inescapable--that if you are just good enough, and nice enough, and loving enough, and faithful enough, and, well, everything enough, that Mr. Right will come along? And that Mr. Right will act the right way? And that Mr. Right will stick around?

Sorry to say ladies, but you weren't told the truth. As some of you know it's very difficult to find a "nice guy" let alone Mr. Right. The days of Cinderella are only in the books and we have to be very careful of who we associate ourselves with.

How many of you have gone out for a dinner and a movie only to get bullied into a "passionate" kiss when all you wanted to do is say goodnight? Men don't realize or just don't care to think that not all women see a simple date as a way to leap into the sheets with someone you really don't know that well. Now i'm not saying all men are out to get what they want , but the ones that do end up wrecking things for the ones that are legitimately nice.

What i can't seem to understand is why it's so difficult to show respect to someone you supposedly "like". Not all encounters with the opposite sex are doorways to sex, sorry to be the one to tell you.

What do women want? We want to be treated with respect and understanding. We want the person to WANT to be there, not put on an act to satisfy their own needs.

Think about that....