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You may think you’re tricky, or one of a kind, or that men have never met a woman like you before, but news flash: just as we put every guy we meet into some category, they do the same to us. It doesn’t mean they don’t recognize the qualities that are uniquely you; it just means that at some point or another, other women have filled your role in their lives.
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The Gold-Digger
Men get a kick out of dating at least one or two Gold-diggers—it says something about their status that women are even out to dig for their gold. And there is something satisfying about it being so easy to make a woman happy: just buy her stuff. No emotional complications involved.
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The Freak
Typically men won’t stay with the ultra-sexual chick forever—the one who wants to bang in the back seat of taxi cabs, who grabs their guy’s junk under the table at dinner with his mom, and who owns a few illegal adult toys. But, as a sort of right of passage, they’ll all date one.
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The Independent Woman
Just as men like to feel like a sugar daddy sometimes, they also like to feel like a sugar baby. Men don’t openly accept a woman paying for things as often as the reverse happens—in fact, studies find that most men feel more comfortable earning more than their partner—but every guy enjoys dating a woman who can and will pay for expensive things.
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The Dime piece
They’re not all superficial and in the end, most men want to marry someone whose personality they love. At that point, mediocre looks are okay. But, we’re only on this planet once. And every guy wants to experience being with a fine woman, at least for a little. Compatibility can go out the window for a few months.
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The Tomboy
Men will call you this simply if you like to get active a lot. If your relationship consists of a lot of hiking, surfing, gym time and general time outdoors/exercising, a man will refer to you as a Tomboy. At heart, all men are little boys who want to play all day and who have a lot of energy to release. They like having a woman who can keep up.
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The hood chick
This could mean you dress in a lot of leopard print spandex jumpers, or that you have long acrylic nails, or that you speak like a rapper, or all of the above. But something about a hood chick brings out the competitive side in a man—he can’t be a demure, wimpy, submissive boyfriend with this girl.
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The Good Girl
Men love nothing more than to corrupt a good girl. They love having a girl around whose sensibilities are so fragile, she covers her mouth in shock every time he makes a crude joke—that lets him know it was really crude, and he feels like a bad*ss. But good girls also bring out the inherently protective side in men: they love taking care of a sweet, unsuspecting female who doesn’t speak up for herself.
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Girlfriend material
Girlfriend material is a little bit of everything: she’ll be active like a Tomboy, she’ll be a good girl, she’ll be an occasional freak in the bedroom, she’ll be hot like a dime piece and she’ll be successful like an Independent woman. But what makes her girlfriend material and not wife material is that, quite frankly, the guy just isn’t deeply in love with her. He thoroughly enjoys her company, and she fills almost all of his needs, but that “it” factor isn’t there. Unfortunately, men will gladly keep girlfriend material around for years, knowing full well she’ll never be wife material to them.
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Wife material
Wife material is pretty easy to understand after you’ve read about girlfriend material. But, wife material can usually get away with not filling all the other categories. Maybe she isn’t as active as her man would like, or maybe she isn’t that adventurous in the bedroom. The reason she gets away with falling short in an area or two is because the “it” factor is there—he can’t see himself without her.
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Crazy
Yup, just plain crazy. This is the woman who will accuse a man of cheating with a woman he’s never even met, who will call every ten minutes, who will talk about all the kids they’re going to have together, and will tell him what friends he can’t hang out with. So why do men date this nightmare? Because it’s kind of an ego boost to have someone so madly obsessed with you, at least once in life. Of course, they realize this rollercoaster isn’t sustainable in the long run.
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The tease
This woman insists that she is casual. She has a way of making a man wonder if she’s seeing other guys. She avoids conversations about “what we are,” sends midnight “Get in my bed” texts, and gets up right after sex to make herself food. She’s elusive, but oh so exciting. She’ll keep a guy wanting more for a long time but eventually it ends because A) She turns around one day and gives him what he wants (i.e. acts like a committed girlfriend) and he realizes the allure is gone or B) The guy begins to feel emasculated and ends it.
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The toy
This is a more innocent form of a booty call. Yes, if you’re the toy, a guy will want to have sex with you, but he’ll also call you up when he feels like whining about life, or when he wants someone to cuddle, or when he wants someone to keep him company grocery shopping. Some guys want all the perks of having a girlfriend, without having to put in any effort or make any emotional investment.
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The surrogate mommy
Deep down, every guy is looking for his mom. Men can’t resist a woman who scratches her head when they’re feeling stressed, or cooks for them, or speaks to them in a sweet, nurturing voice or who in general lets them act like big babies.
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The boss
This is essentially a different version of the surrogate mommy, because what else is a mom besides sweet and nurturing? She’s the boss. Men crave having a woman to put them in their place, call them out when they’re being wimps, and whip them in shape when they’re misbehaving. They want some direction.
