My version of “What to Expect from a Strong Women”

… because I really hate the original writing.

1) She won’t play games

Don’t expect the usual game-playing at the beginning of a relationship. She’s not going to mind if you don’t call her for two days because she’s secure and having too much fun. If she wants to talk to you, she'll pick up the phone. If she feels like more attention from you, she'll tell you. Your Thursday night poker buddy who looks like Scarlett Johansen won’t bug her. She knows she looks like Giselle Brundchen--ahem--on the inside.

2) She wants a real, living, breathing, flawed man.

She’ll appreciate of your mad talent for planning nights in, or your 19th-century manners, or your ability to make perfect ganache. Especially the ganache. Strong women know men have flaws because they have flaws. She'll deal with a date night spent at Starbucks as long as you balance your tablespoon on your nose at least twice.

3) She wants a real conversation

She wants a relationship with a unique individual. She knows everyone has crap days, especially when they have man flu. Strong women like to be intellectually stimulated, but they’re also big girls who can cope with your bad moods. They might even make you hot chocolate.

4) Respect is a big priority

Even though she's the only 99.99% perfect person in history, she’ll hold onto you when you make mistakes because she knows you forgave her when she made the one and only mistake she'll ever make in her life.

5) She will keep her expectations in check...

...because the road to resentment is paved with unrealistic expectations. If you say you’re going to do something, she’ll want you to be accountable for it, but there are a lot of things worse than a man who doesn’t stick to his decisions. World hunger, f’rinstance, and a lack of chocolate ganache. If you fuck up, she’s not going to grill you about it unless you make it a habit because strong women know how to forgive.

6) She dislikes men who lack individuality

If you don’t have the kind of ambitions that the rest of the world recognises as worthwhile, she’s able to recognise your goals as valuable--unless you’re hanging out on the sofa every day eating Cheetos, because she wants a man who finds joy in life and the living of it.

7) She’s secure enough to be disagreed with

She doesn’t derive her sense of security from shared opinions, but intellectual stimulation and growth. When you disagree with her in public, she will probably be delighted. She loves a man who challenges her perceptions of the world.

8) She won’t settle for a night in all the time

Expect a woman who lives freely and encourages you to live freely. She's more than happy to go out biking while you stay home playing The Witcher. She might come back home and wrestle the mouse out of your hands, but that's because she can kill the dragon faster than you can (obviously).

9) Expect Acceptance

A strong woman wants a man who is not a carbon cut-out of herself. She already has a mirror in her dressing room, so she’d really like it if you’d be yourself. That’s why she chose you instead of the other guy.