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"  Sometimes it seems as though there are only two basic varieties of men: Guys Who Are Normal, and Guys Who Eff With Your Mind. We ladies like normal guys, sure. But who among us doesn&amp;#039;t love them some Mind-Effer?? I&amp;#039;m talking about the special attraction we have for the dudes who bring a psychological game so intense, after a couple of weeks a girl might be left wondering if the sky really is blue.  Dealing with a Mind Effer starts out fun \u2013 probably be cause they&amp;#039;re such a challenge. They&amp;#039;re never boring. They&amp;#039;re kings of seduction and/or intellect. In fact, they blow your mind the same way you blow their woo-hoos \u2013 the difference being that, in pretty short order, your mind will start to hurt.  So in the interest of saving you from a migraine in the form of a man, here is a quick field guide to four of the most common Guys Who Will Eff With Your Mind. 1. The Taylor Swift. No, he&amp;#039;s not a girl. He&amp;#039;s a really cute guy in a really cool band with a really short attention span who is SO INTO YOU one minute, and 6 or 18 or 32 days later, is calling up real estate agents to unload the love nest you guys were about to settle down in. (Just kidding. The guy version of Taylor Swift rarely has any money. He is super cute, though.)  This kind of guy can leave a girl plenty wounded, with a bad case of whiplash to the heart. And mind. He will leave you ruminating over every square inch of the relationship, searching your brain for clues to what happened like so much cocaine spilled on a shag carpet. But he said he loved me! Was he lying? Did he mean ANYTHING he said??? You will wonder how you could be so deceived. I once had a friend who spent three years getting over a Taylor Swift \u2013 it was a particularly terrible situation because at the time he really was in one of the world&amp;#039;s biggest rock bands \u2013 and the dream of being a Rock Wife dies a very painful death. If this is the guy you&amp;#039;re dealing with, the best you can hope for is that he writes a song that you \u2013 and probably several other women \u2013 will think is about you.  2. The Potato Chipper. This guy gets his name because he treats women like potato chips \u2013 he can never have just one. He always pursues you hard\u2014why wouldn&amp;#039;t he? He&amp;#039;s trying to put together a harem. Besides, he has no intention of making a commitment. Not even to dinner. Dealing with a Chipper is perplexing because he has the ability to make you feel ultra-special in the &amp;quot;relationship,&amp;quot; yet you never quite feel secure. You make excuses for him, but deep down, you know something isn&amp;#039;t right. You just can&amp;#039;t put your finger on it. And of course he denies it, when asked. He&amp;#039;ll even make noises about being &amp;quot;committed&amp;quot;, and he is \u2013 to running a harem. If you&amp;#039;re wondering if you&amp;#039;re on the wrong end of this man, there is one telltale sign. He almost never picks up the phone, preferring instead to call you back thirty seconds later, which gives him time to slip away from whichever other girl he&amp;#039;s with. If this is your Mind Effer, run.  3. The Friend Without Benefits. Here&amp;#039;s a guy who will eff your mind for months if you let him. The problem is, he won&amp;#039;t eff your body! This little gem can be tough to distinguish from Friends With Benefits at first, but there&amp;#039;s a crucial difference: HE WON&amp;#039;T HAVE SEX WITH YOU. The two of you are besties, and he says he thinks you&amp;#039;re hot. You spend hours \u2013 no, days \u2013 together, sometimes even sleeping in the same bed. But when you ask him when the relationship&amp;#039;s going to progress from spooning to forking, he says things like, &amp;quot;that would ruin it,&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want to do that to you&amp;quot;. You wonder if there&amp;#039;s something wrong with you, like, do you smell? You think you&amp;#039;re going crazy because all guys want sex, right? And in my experience, the answer is yes. Yes, they do. It&amp;#039;s just that some of them only want it from women they don&amp;#039;t actually like. Or women they pay. Or women in their computer. None of which are you. 4. The Beautiful Mind. Last but not least we have the guy who is so brilliant, half the time you don&amp;#039;t even know what he&amp;#039;s talking about. His big secret: sometimes, neither does he. (The difference is: he doesn&amp;#039;t know it, and you do.) Being involved with a Beautiful Mind can get really ugly. On a bad day, it&amp;#039;s like watching A Clockwork Orange, on repeat. On a good day, it&amp;#039;s like doing quadratic equations. Either way, ugh. The other issue is that Beautiful Minds tend to abstract things so hardcore, pretty soon NOTHING is true and EVERYTHING is true. You will never win an argument with this dude, because for big-dog brains like his, arguments are like spending a couple of hours at the dog park. In other words, a great time. The problem is, while you chase him around, it is you who steps in the dog doo.  Bottom line: Guys who blow your mind aren&amp;#039;t necessarily something you have to avoid completely. They&amp;#039;re more like going to, say, Coachella, and say, dropping acid. It can be an unforgettable experience \u2013 but you better have good friends around you and figure out where the medical tent is in advance.  Tracy McMillan is the author of Why You&amp;#039;re Not Married... Yet and a matchmaker on NBC&amp;#039;s new primetime reality show Ready For Love Want more from sage love advice from Tracy? Follow her on Twitter. Photo Credit: NBC "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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