1. We feel entitled.
Gottlieb: "Women try to be good friends to each other. We say, 'You deserve this, you're so great! You're such a good catch! Any man would be lucky!' [Men don't say that to each other.] We are good catches, but we also are human and we're not perfect and somebody's going to have to put up with us for the rest of his life. And we forget. My dating coach said, write down all the reasons a guy would not want to date you. At first I didn't think I had that many things, because you think you're a pretty good catch. He said, what you think of as quirky, endearing, and cute, is really annoying to someone else. But he would love you so much that he would overlook that. And you need to overlook things in him. Everybody has to compromise."