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A Reason You Keep Falling for the Wrong People

Why we keep finding people who seem to be soulmates but aren’t

Lee Bidoski
5 min readJan 15, 2022
Photo by Karthikeyan Perumal on Unsplash

A while back I finally learned why I was failing miserably at dating.

Strangely, I dated men who anyone and everyone — my friends included — would describe as good men.

I wasn’t suffering from the obvious dating sabotage methods. I wasn’t refusing to date men who weren’t tall enough. I wasn’t picking men based on how handsome they were. I wasn’t going after the bad boys.

I picked men that I connected with, deeply.

I’d even think, “I’ve met my soulmate”.

It would seem like “All systems go.”

Until all systems shut down.

Here, I’m going to describe one such relationship. At the end, I’ll show you what was actually undermining these relationships that seemed to have so much potential.

Maybe you’ll recognize yourself in my story and learn, as I did, why I kept falling for the wrong people and what I had to do to fix it.

He went to the Citadel, and he was damaged there.

When he struggled physically with me, he didn’t want me to think it was my fault, that I wasn’t attractive, or that I was doing anything wrong. So…

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Lee Bidoski
Lee Bidoski

Written by Lee Bidoski

I’m a psychology professor trying to understand and improve our lives. Relationships | Dating | Health | Careers | Sports | Law Enforcement | Military

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