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"When Jesse James and Kat Von D broke their much-publicized engagement, you would have been hard-pressed to hear any cries of shock from the public. Though distance was cited as the reason for the relationship&amp;amp;#8217;s demise, it&amp;amp;#8217;s hard to believe that there weren&amp;amp;#8217;t other factors involved. Why? Because, really, they both should have known better. Jesse James&amp;amp;#8217; and Kat Von D&amp;amp;#8217;s Twitter-documented romance, from where we&amp;amp;#8217;re standing, was a classic rebound. So, how can you tell if you&amp;amp;#8217;re someone&amp;amp;#8217;s rebound? 1. They&amp;amp;#8217;re super-eager to commit. Is it two weeks in and you&amp;#x27;ve met their parents? Are they throwing around words like &amp;quot;forever&amp;quot; in the first four days? Maybe they&amp;#x27;re just head-over-heels and want to lock it down before the best thing that&amp;#x27;s ever happened to them gets away. Or maybe they&amp;#x27;re trying to burn the scent off their last relationship off their body with a flamethrower. 2. They tend to &amp;amp;#8220;show you off.&amp;amp;#8221; What are you doing on their arm at the birthday party of a vague acquaintance? Furthermore, why are you meeting everyone and actually talking to no one? Bringing you is the equivalent of wearing a t-shirt that says &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m over my ex.&amp;quot; 3. They compare you to their ex. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s true that no one else they&amp;#x27;ve ever dated has ever been able to go Anchorman-quote-for-Anchorman-quote with them. But why do they have to make it weird by saying that their ex &amp;quot;didn&amp;#x27;t know how to have fun&amp;quot;? 4. They&amp;amp;#8217;re &amp;amp;#8220;in a really good place now.&amp;amp;#8221; Of course there are exceptions. But anytime someone makes a point of telling you, unprovoked, that they&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;in a really good place,&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;s more than likely because they desperately want to be &amp;quot;in a really good place.&amp;quot; Be careful that you&amp;#x27;re not just a piece in their &amp;quot;really good place&amp;quot; puzzle that will never be finished. 5. They talk more about how much they like you than why. Not that you&amp;#x27;re not worthy of excessive praise. But non-specific excessive praise? If you&amp;#x27;re not sure what they actually like so much about you, it&amp;#x27;s probably worth asking. And if they bring up their ex at all in that explanation, get out. 6. They met you at a bar the night after they broke up with their ex. Nothing says &amp;quot;I just need a jogging buddy to run from my pain with&amp;quot; than a post-break-up drunk hook-up. --Written by Scott Alden for HowAboutWe.com Have any of you girls ever been in the rebound position? How did you handle it? More from HowAboutWe: *10 Things You Shouldn&amp;#x27;t Do Until You&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;Exclusive&amp;quot; *Online Dating 101: If You&amp;#x27;re Dating Someone, Should You Take Down Your Profile? *3 Questions To Ask A Guy On A Date (And 3 Questions To Avoid) More Ways to Get Glamour: NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard! Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad--print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter. Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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