Get Your MAN: A women's guide

Where to Find a Nice Guy

This was sent from a guy friend of mine, but he wants to remain anonymous, so here you go. Though, you should DEFINITELY read what he has to say:

« For most of my life, I've always been the nicest guy around. I was nice to everyone. We've heard of blooming boy scouts, who are so hell bent on trying to be nice to everything.

Now imagine me at school, I was the leader of boy scouts! Literally!

So that probably makes me one of the nicest guys in the world, waiting to get walked over by everyone who has seen my face.

If there was anything as an Academy Award for the Nicest Guy, I would have won that with my hands tied behind my back. I was that nice!

I helped old women cross the street, stayed sober because I had to drive my friends back after a New Year party, and always made sure I put my others' needs before mine, especially when it came to women.

A nice guy and his love life

I had my first serious relationship with a girl when I was fifteen. The relationship lasted a little over a year.

I knew it wasn't going to work out two months into the relationship, but I didn't want to break up because she was a nice girl, and I really didn't want to break her heart. I silently suffered through a painful year with a girl who pretended like she was still single and kept our relationship a secret from her friends, especially her guy friends.

And what happened eventually was that she dumped me and walked out on me two days before our 'one year two months' anniversary and hooked up with another guy who wore a leather jacket and had pierced ears.

I've had several women best friends since I was a young kid, and I used to speak with all of them for hours on end over the phone. All the girls in my college liked me a lot, and they kept reminding me about what a nice guy I was. Of course, I liked hearing that.

Friends, crushes and getting stuck in between

After graduating, I met this gorgeous girl, who took the air straight out of my lungs. She was exceptionally beautiful and very sweet. Eventually, after bumping into each other now and then, we became really good friends.

The only problem with her was that she was really depressed all the time. We used to sit down over coffee for hours, and I loved being around her. Within the first two years after knowing her, she had been in six relationships and walked out of all of them, and there I was, sitting next to her, falling in love more and more with her while she used to hug me and look deep into my eyes.

All I gave a damn about was how her boobs felt against me when she hugged me, but of course, what could I ever tell her?

I could never tell her I had a big crush on her. I mean, the closeness we shared would eventually get us together, right? And after each hug, she used to tell me the same thing, "You are the sweetest guy I've ever met. I wish more guys were like you."

She even asked me the question that could have changed our relationship once, "tell me where to find a nice guy who would love me?" I just smiled and responded cryptically that he's probably just around the corner waiting for her to recognize him. I wanted love to blossom through friendship like it did in the movies. The girl dates a million guys and finally realizes that the love of her life was right next to her.