Most of the time when your girlfriend dumps you...it's not her, it's you. Guys, we're some of the dumbest oafs around when it comes to relationships, and we're always doing SOMETHING wrong. Girls may not be the easiest creatures to understand, and relationships with them can be a bit difficult to manage...but really if you can figure out your problems you can solve them.

So that's why I'm here, to list off the main stupid things we often do to anger our lovely, gentle little flowers and make them grow thorns. What's more, I'm going to tell you how to get through the stupid things we do, at least the ones I'm covering in this article. Here's a resource written for a man, by a man, to deal with women in relationships.

1) Top thing that makes girls really itch for your throat is when you just don't pay attention to her. Guys, you should know better. Women want to feel like their opinions and viewpoints matter to you. If they don't get the feeling that they're being heard when they talk for hours on end, they might stop talking to you altogether...and that's NOT a good thing. A woman requires constant attention.

Of course, this can be a bit contrary sometimes. You don't want to pay TOO MUCH attention to her, because that's considered "weird" or "scary." Achieving a balance is very difficult, as you have to pay enough attention to satisfy her without hanging on her every word and freaking her out. Since every girl's different, best idea is to simply listen to figure out exactly what she needs.

2) There's this term women use...it's called when a guy is being "emotionally supportive" of his woman. This term means absolutely nothing as far as I can figure...basically it's just a way of measuring how well a guy knows his girl. It's kinda related to List Item #1, but a bit expanded. Women are looking for when a guy pays enough attention to a girl so that he knows her almost as well as she knows herself.

Guys who can do this naturally are referred to as having "game." This simply means that a guy is naturally good at reading women and understanding the things to say and do to make their hearts melt. Your supreme goal here is to make the girl feel like she and her feelings are both very important to you...and the best way to do this is to really listen to her and read her body language.

3) Oh my God, do NOT let a woman catch you cheating on her. And by that I don't mean do it carefully, I mean don't do it. Women may take slightly less offense to other women cheating on their men, but a man who cheats is sin itself and must be brutally destroyed by any means necessary. Most of us guys know it's "bad" to cheat on a woman, but the majority of us may not know exactly what "cheating" is as a woman sees it.

You see, having sex with another woman is only the most extreme case of cheating. Talking to other women, looking at other women, even fantasies including other women can all be considered cheating as far as girls are concerned. Sure, girls can flirt all they want with whoever they want, but to us guys it's best that we forget that girls other than our ladies even exist...they're all just funny-looking guys with long hair.

4) For crying out loud, there is more trouble in the home than there has any right to be. When living with your girlfriend, simply accept the fact that you are GOING to help out around the house. You are fully capable of taking out the trash whether you want to or not, and if you know what's good for you, you'll just do what your girl says and hope she doesn't make you sleep on the couch.

So how does this help you if you've already broken up with her? Well, once you can identify the things you've done wrong in the past, you can start working to avoid doing them in the future. Whether it's with your now-ex-girlfriend or with a new woman, you'll be much less likely to make her leave again if you can keep from making these idiot classic "guy" blunders.