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Are you a hero, or an a-hole? When it comes to dating, persistence doesn’t pay.
It’s easy to get caught up in the ‘hero’ narrative – the one that says if we try hard enough, we’ll get the happy ending we want. But persistence isn’t always a good thing – in fact, it often makes us look like a-holes.