Give It a Whirl (v.): The act of dating outside your comfort zone, just to get the taste of your last guy out of your mouth.

After a bad experience with your "usual," you work hard to purposely open your mind to different types of guys. So you accept a date with a guy you normally wouldn't. Do you usually go for the bad-boy type? Maybe you'll accept a date with a Mathlete, just to try it out. Or, if you only date jocks, you might go out with an art major.

"This is good! Look at me break the pattern," you tell yourself. But the plan backfires, because dating "a different type of guy" usually just means "any old guy."

Spending time with a guy you choose haphazardly is almost always a bust -- you have nothing in common and, worse yet, no interest. After that, the guy you were trying to get over in the first place has never sounded more appealing.

After giving it a whirl, almost every girl goes back to dating the kind of guy she knows she should avoid.

Tell us! Did you ever date a Mr. Wrong because you were trying to Give It a Whirl?

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