If women want to break the cycle, stop letting men be successful at sleazy locations, like bars and nightclubs. They could also approach men in a way that they're not just making obscure flirting signals that take NORAD scientists to decipher. There are a lot of good men out there that just don't want to deal with the 90 percent rejection rate that dating makes happen. After about five tries, today's guy just gives up and never tries again. You can blame all sorts of reasons for this, but it's where we are. Otherwise, we're going to read tons of these kinds of articles and no one is going to end up in a relationship with anyone else.