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"Ladies, there is a term that every woman must have in her romantic glossary: The Ick. The Ick is the uncontrollable feeling of bleeccchh! when it comes to a guy. It&amp;amp;#8217;s the sensation of total disgust and physical revulsion toward a guy you&amp;#x27;re involved with. Is there a neurochemistry to attraction? Yes! Let me start at the beginning. The Ick isn&amp;amp;#8217;t about looks. No, no. It doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t discriminate. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve gotten it for perfectly handsome, adorable boys. Nor does it apply to random guys in bars. The Ick is specific to someone you&amp;amp;#8217;re dating or hooking up with. The Ick stems from a few things: 1) He&amp;amp;#8217;s too nice and you wear the pants. You can&amp;amp;#8217;t get down and dirty with a guy who is so obsequious and fawning that he&amp;amp;#8217;s more like a jellyfish than a man. But it sure doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t help if he&amp;amp;#8217;s a bad kisser too. 2) You&amp;amp;#8217;re just over it. When you&amp;amp;#8217;re halfway out the door in a relationship, there is plenty of room for The Ick to come and set up shop. 3) You were never that attracted to him to begin with. This happens to me A LOT. I&amp;amp;#8217;ll start dating a guy out of boredom or because I&amp;amp;#8217;m trying to be nice, but there&amp;amp;#8217;s no chemistry at all. I end up feeling trapped and cowardly, getting the Ick, and taking it out on him until I have the guts to leave. Here&amp;#x27;s the feeling in picture form. I think my friend snapped this shot at the zenith of my grossed-outedness: This reader sounds like she&amp;#x27;s on a one-way train to Ickville, check her story out! The Ick isn&amp;amp;#8217;t the guy&amp;amp;#8217;s fault. In fact, the nicer they are, the more disgusted you often get. Little things about him will start to drive you NUTS, to the point that you can get mean and snappy. And unfortunately, it&amp;amp;#8217;s terminal. I have never, EVER known a girl to bounce back from The Ick. Once physical attraction has left the building, she&amp;amp;#8217;s gone for good. I KNOW you&amp;amp;#8217;ve had The Ick&amp;amp;#8212;tell me about it! Get Glamour Wherever You Go! Follow us on Twitter. Friend us on Facebook. Add us to your Google homepage."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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