Fourteen surefire lessons you will come across by experience:

1. The only person who appreciates your gifts is the person who is in love with you anyway, without the gifts.
2. “If he takes two steps forward, don’t trust him because he wants something. If he takes two steps back, then he didn’t get what he wanted, so he’s now acting like a jerk.”
3. The competition is always a jerk.
4. If you’re interested in someone, their best friend and confidante secretly has a murderous hatred for you.
5. (Murphy’s Law) On a date, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
6. Real men don’t make the first move. Women supply the hint. Men supply the specifics.
7. Everything goes wrong on a camping trip.
8. No matter who you are, somebody in the world will have a crush on you, sometime in your life; the hard part is getting yourself to have a crush on them.
   
9. Flirting does not mean they like you; it means the person’s flirting.
10. The man always apologizes, even if it’s not his fault.
    
11. When two people break up, the man sees it as sudden and shocking. The woman sees it as a long chain of events ending in a breakup.
12. Men are always interested in the same women as other men are. The rest of the women are backup plans.
13. Women are always interested in the same men as other women are. The rest of the men are backup plans.
14. Older girls consider money first and physical attraction second.