True, so true. I once met an eligible bachelor who seemed to have it all. Any mother would have felt that her daughter hit a home run with this catch: good looks, brains, and what at first passed for a personality. Never been married, without child, and straight. He was a physician who recently landed a position at the local hospital and I happened to pick him up as one of my tenants to a lease. Prior to meeting him, I was already impressed with what his application said. His resume and financial portfolios were impeccable and with that I was certain I was going to meet a poorly aged man suffering from a severe case of adult acne and psoriasis. Instead I was pleasantly surprised with the tanned and muscular surfer with a brand new Range Rover who greeted me in the driveway. Score! Fist pump! So I thought…

Like all other suckers of punishment, I knew I needed to spend more time with this fellow to find out if our “too good to be true” theory had any bearing. Once he approached the end of his lease, we spent some time exploring other leases and potential purchasing options. It should have been so much more fun than it was. We laughed as he had a sense of humor and he was very well mannered…in the beginning. He began to call me last minute for late night drinking sessions like I was his on call nurse. A disinterest developed slowly until one day all remaining interest evaporated into thin air. An egotistical version of him began to manifest. We were driving around in his Range Rover when a car behind us seemed to be hugging his bumper. I could see the doctor eyeing the perpetrator carefully in the rearview mirror. And all of a sudden he shouted, “Hey! You better watch out! This car costs a lot of MON-EY! (while rubbing his fingers together insinuating cash bills).” I was so mortified and turned off that he might as well have told me we were blood related. We stopped speaking after that. I really had nothing to say to him.

He obviously was a wolf in sheep’s clothing – a good-looking, financially equipped doctor with a god’s gift to women complex. I wanted to believe he was the perfect guy, someone who would make me believe in unicorns and fairy tales again, but after allowing more time to pass I discovered who he was and didn’t like what I saw. Everyone has their flaws, even the most perfect of men, but it’s whether you can live with that flaw – I just couldn’t in this case. I had a feeling it was too good to be true when I met him, and it turns out I was right.

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