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Fake ASS Ballers: 13 Ways to Spot 'Em I recently went on a date with a fellow whom, for two months, had pulled every trick out of his hat until I finally agreed to meet him. Plans for a night in NYC filled with dinner and bowling seemed like a very promising first date. *Record scratch* However, it took a terrible turn when the same guy who picked me up in a 2010 Range Rover wearing Boss Black and smelling like Gucci asked me to foot the bill at the end of the night. Whaaat? It wasn't like I didn't have it, but wasn't he was the one who had requested to take me out, not the other way around? What made matters worse was that the whole night, his braggadocio demeanor would have had anyone thinking he had more money than Bill Gates himself. So when I asked him why he felt it was okay for me to pick up the tab, his response - "I didn't think bowling would be $200" - was priceless.
1. He asks how much something costs before he orders it. If he tells you to get whatever you want - but when you order a simple drink, he asks the bartender how much it is before she pours - pay for your own drink and leave. 2. His excuse for not having something is always because he had it years ago. If you heard him say, "I had the iPhone 4 in its beta stage back in the day, so I'm waiting for something new to come out," to explain why he doesn't have any type of cell phone now, be very suspicious. 3. His only vacation spots have been Miami or Vegas. It's been five months now, and he's still talking about how he "just came back from Vegas for the fight." Chile... 4. He never puts you on to anything new. If he says he has the best Italian resturant in mind and you end up at Olive Garden, or he's always impressed by your date choices, he's not balling. 5. He has a designer wallet with nothing in it. If a driver's license and 40 singles are the only things to make his Gucci wallet look bulky, suggest he sell the wallet. 6. He only wants to hang out on "house dates." When you said you'll come over to watch a movie, he was all for it, but when you changed your mind and said you would rather make a trip to the theatre to catch a movie, he suddenly had a change of heart.
It was his idea to go to the city, his idea to VIP bowl and his idea to drink like a fish, so I wasn't at all shocked by the price tag. I was shocked, however, that I had run into one of the most annoying type 7. He drives the newest cars, but has no home. He picks you up in a Beamer, Benz or Bentley, but lives in the same room he of guys - a fake baller. grew up in - with his mama and 56-inch flat screen. Real ballers, a term usually reserved for a financially successful man, 8. He loves to make jokes about you paying when the bill comes. are known to be confident, swagglicious and, of course, financially secure. On the other hand, fake ballers are like a great knockoff No matter how much he swears he was joking when the bill came and he asked you, "You got this?" understand he's really hoping you say yes. Louis bag: The differences are subtle, but more times than not, they only have one, maybe two, of the three "baller" 9. He wears a ton of jewelry, but doesn't have a 401K. prerequisites and overcompensate for the lack of being fiA real baller focuses on the future of their wealth and invests in things that nancially secure with being flashy. The type of guy who always have real returns - not $11,000 chains. talks about the money he has, looks like a million bucks, but really doesn't have anything at all. 10. He's always concerned about your money. If he's asking you if you get paid weekly or biweekly and "about how much," Fake ballers exist because, whether we like to admit it or not, be concerned. many women have gold-digger tendencies. Fake ballers believe that being flashy and fly with their rent money in their pockets is the best method to reel a woman in. What's funny 11.He's asked you to put something on your credit card, with the promise to give you the cash later. is that fake ballers (and, most times, true ballers) can't use Real ballers manage their money well enough to have credit lines and good money, or even the idea of it, to get a woman. Fake ballers, in credit. particular, prey on women they deem materialistic and those easily impressed by their lame hoodrich stories of wealth. 12. He never wants to break a large bill. Real women, on the other hand, aren't impressed by a man that He pulls out the same three $100 dollar bills that have been sitting in his walhas $10,000 of jewelry on his wrist but rides on the passenger let for a month, and asks you to pay for the movie, because "he doesn't have anything small." Fake.com. side of his best friend's ride. When a woman has already had eyes open to the many things life has to offer, trying to be a 13. He pronounces certain (read: "fancy") words incorrectly. flashy baller will always look cheap. Money, cars and clothes If the dude pronounces Merlot with the "t" (mer-loT) and says he's been to may impress the shallow, but makes a woman of substance Turks and Cactus (Caicos), he's a fraud. bored. Fake ballers disregard women who put in work to do financially well for herself, and only want someone who is able to complement (not create) the lifestyle she has already began to build for herself. Ladies: Have you encountered a fake baller? Fake ballers, even more so fake people, in general, must be avoided, and when you run across someone who would rather be someone they really aren't, run the other way. Ladies, in case you haven't mastered being able to spot them, here are 13 signs to help you out:
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Luv Coach Q&A: Catching Him With His Pants Down My husband has been having an 18-year-long affair with an older woman. I am his second wife and have only been married to him for five years. After catching him red handed through cell phone calls, he had no choice but to admit his cheating. He has told me every last terrible detail of the affair and it is killing me. I don't know if I will ever get over this or if this marriage will make it. He has since ended it with her and wants to make it work between us. I don't know if I can. Help! -LisaLet me get this straight. He has been cheating and disrespecting you for your entire relationship and marriage, and now he wants you to give him the respect he never gave you? He wants you to trust that he has actually ended it with his lover and now wants to make it work with you? If he is so committed to your marriage and wants to make it work, why didn't he end the affair before he got caught? It's way too little, way too late. Your husband didn't want to give up his cheating lifestyle for you and he is only choosing to do it now because of the threat of losing everything. What makes him any different from the man who has been betraying your trust and putting you at risk for the last five years? Nothing. As for making it work, do you want to spend the next three years in marriage counseling rebuilding the trust, love, and intimacy that he so easily squandered? An 18-year affair means he cheated on his first wife, cheated on his second wife and probably cheated on a handful of other women. Do you really believe he is ready to become a faithful husband?
I have been with this man for eight months and just recently caught him on the phone with his ex-wife. They were having phone sex. About four months after we started dating I confronted him about phone calls he was getting late at night. He told me it was his crazy ex, but that he ignores her calls and in time she would go away. I asked him why he didn't just put his foot down and make it clear to her that he's moved on and she needs to stop calling. He said he owed her some money from the divorce, and, just like any bill collector, she will always find a way to hunt him down until that money is paid off. I gave him the benefit of the doubt, since I had no evidence that it could be anything else. It seems that this has probably been going on all along. It has devastated me and I have so many unanswered questions. Was it bad timing? Was he not ready for a serious relationship like I was? Why couldn't he be honest from the beginning if he was not over his ex? I would have gotten out of the picture from the start. It has only been a week, but I have yet to get a phone call apologizing for what has happened. Does this mean he really is a liar and a cheater and there just isn't any hope for a relationship? -Iris There are no amount of answers that are going to soothe the wound that this man has inflicted upon your heart. He is a liar and a cheater, and his unapologetic actions are sending you the message that he doesn't care. This is selfish, hurtful behavior that was done consciously, which lets you know just how much he values you. I know you are in a lot of pain, but you will heal and move past this. Don't waste any more of your precious energy and love on this man. End the relationship now and spend the next six months focused on healing yourself. There are millions of men in the world that are faithful, trustworthy and ready for a relationship with one woman, so throw this one back in the sea and keep fishing. Follow Rebecca Brody on Twitter @LuvCoach
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