Hell yes, It happened and it is actually happening ever since I got married. I can't tell you why but now, it looks like they appreciate me more, maybe because if they see that you treat your girlfriend/wife nicely, they might think that if you are with her instead, you could do same. Well, I'm just presuming but I may be totally wrong. I'd like to hear a girl comments about that. lol

Mmm... I payed about $55 to get a music DVD imported which wasn't meant to come out in Australia, surely enough a few months later it did indeed come out over here and was $25 cheaper then what I had to pay. No biggie, but you said you didn't want it to be anything major.

As for the girl thing... I really don't know man. I have noticed that, whenever I'm taken I seem to have more girls trying to hook up with me then when I'm single. My theory, and since I'm not a girl and every girl is different anyway, this might be completely off - If you're single, a girl knows that you want them. When you're taken however, you don't want them, so they like to prove to themselves that they can get you even when you don't want them in the slightest. Why is beyond me, some girls are way too weird for me to figure out.

Nice theory.

And by the way, I didn't say I wanted non-serious stuff, I just said it didn't have to be serious. You can get as serious as you want to.

I know you said the example didn't HAVE to be related to girls, but unfortunately, all the examples I have in life have to do with women Even worse, it's happened a shitload of times. The most significant of these, however, has to do with 3 of my exes.

My first girlfriend dumped me for another guy, but she still wanted me to be there, showering her with gifts and attention. It took me about a month before I got fed up and stopped calling her. It's not that she wanted me back, but she did want me to dedicate my life and love entirely to her. Anyways, once I stopped calling her, SHE started calling me and actually had the nerve to ask me why I stopped calling her.

Pretty much the same thing happened with my third gf. We had broken up, but according to every single conversation we had, we were gonna get back together. Then one day, a pal of mine calls me up and tells me that she was now some other guy's gf. And it was the same guy that had been pursuing her for several months yet she kept insisting that she didn't like him at all. We stopped talking for some 2 months, and eventually I decided to move on. I started dating another girl, and less than a week after she became my fourth gf, my most recent ex started calling me up again, hinting at how she wanted me back (she was single by now). I find it funny AND ridiculous that she actually expected to remain single for the rest of my life while she lived happily ever after with some other guy.

The final example has to do with my most recent ex (#4, the one I mentioned above, and yes, she is the same one I've talked about in dozens of threads). About 5 months after we had broken up, I practically begged her for another chance. She told me no and told me we would never ever get back together again. Despite the fact that I was still madly in love with her, I NEEDED to be with somebody, so I started going out with another girl. This ex of mine is EXTREMELY proud, so there was no way she'd ever tell me "I'm jealous and I want you back." What she DID say, however, was that me dating this other girl ruined any chance of us getting back together. Right, like I'm supposed to actually think that when she had told me less than a month before that there was ZERO possibility of us becoming a couple again.

As for your question, the best comparison I can give is of a small child and its toy: He/she plays with it until they get bored with it and move onto something else. However, if a parent/brother/sister gets it (for whatever purpose), the child starts crying and tries reaching for it because it belongs to them and no one else. Most women are just like that. Even if they don't want to be your gf, they still want you there to devote your entire life to them and the mere thought of you doing that to some other girl is "unthinkable."

Just a tad cruel, but a great theory as well. You had examples and everything.