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They flirt with you more and offer to do things with you more often.

Research by the International Sexuality Description Project suggests that up to 20% of long-term relationships start when one partner (or both) is dating, even married to, someone else. Why do women like attached men?

Johannesburg-based psychologist Asiphe Ndlela says human beings seem to take to things when someone else likes them too. She says women, like all female members of the animal kingdom, engage in "mate copying". Just hearing that other women want to date a man stimulates their interest.

Ndlela says it is usually not the man himself who is attractive so much as what others think of him. She adds that in general women want what other women have. Women are more sensitive to the choices made by other women.

"Taken men can seem safe to get close to at first and they are used to a woman's ways and then the woman slowly falls for him. They are confident and don't give any needy or desperate vibes," she says.

Some women figure married men have been pre-approved by another woman so they figure they can't be that bad and being in a relationship also promotes a man's likeability.

Women want somebody whom their friends are going to be envious of.

No woman wants a man that no other woman wants. To women the simple fact that a guy is someone's makes him worth a try. For many women, when a man is in a relationship, it is confirmation that he has been tested and approved as boyfriend material and women see taken men as having desirable qualities."

She says being with another woman represents so much to the female gender because it shows you have the ability to be in a relationship, which is important when you are a woman looking for a man.

"Taken people are usually hard to get, and those who go for them find pleasure in running after what seems to be difficult or sometimes impossible.

But once they get what they want, that person becomes just another person. It's like a dare game to win what seems to be inaccessible or not easy to get."

Ndlela adds that interestingly, poachers tend to rank low on ambition because they like the quick-fix challenge of landing a relationship, not the challenge of keeping one. She says if they had real ambition, they would find their own relationship.

Marriage counsellor Zwelam Ndunge says from an evolutionary standpoint women need someone who is a provider, stable and committed. Men in relationships give off this vibe, even if they don't necessarily possess these qualities.

"When women look at the single guy they wonder why he is single or believe that he is not material for a long-term mate. Someone in a relationship has taken a step to be with one person." he says.

Ndunge says many women feel that attached men with a lot of experience are a better catch than a bachelor.

For some a taken man is someone with whom they can indulge in their fantasies and who could provide a great time.

Most women want to be in relationships and will get in to one by any means even if it means stealing someone else's man. Ndunge adds that women like a challenge.

Getting a taken man signifies a triumph of one woman over another. What makes him the ultimate catch to her could be his experience, confidence and authority. - johnz@sowetan.co.za

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May 29, 2012

tpaz

That is why us married women are so much in demand.....
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May 29, 2012

sakhomba

why do the likes of Josephine,Jumaima and Johanna are not jumping to date with me?
Asiphe Ndlela o maka.
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May 29, 2012

SeshegoGuY

I agree 100%. Women always go for Men who are taken. Its like the minute you get a GF u become a magnet. Im in a long distance relationship but still fighting off resistance
@tpaz
This is about Men. SIT DOWN!
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May 29, 2012

maneater

yaa its true, all the women want me as well, i now even keep a pepper spray with me to keep them at bay.
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May 29, 2012

Mzalaz

@tpaz, nkwahhh that's so so gal and that is why married men are so much in demand, sad but true

The friend of mine, only targets married men, she never does single men, before I use to have problem with that but now I don't care, she is a good person not a btch,she say married men are loving and responsable and she enjoys it when her married man will come to her and tell her that no matter how much stress he had ,but anytime he talks to her everything goes away.

She stays long time in thiese relationship and it's her who decide to leave a man, so that's why she enjoys this game because she is always in control, and the married men obey. For the record : She said she will never get married in her life, because as she does this, she is treated like a queen but once married she will cry all nights holding her pillows because man this man that.

This question is from me personally, Is there anything called by stealing someone else's man' as Ndunge says, how do you steal a humanbeing? no one can steal me, I can go volontarily but stealing HELL NO people! that's not an excuse for cheating.
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May 29, 2012

dimpho_4U

maaka!
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May 29, 2012

Mzalaz

@ tpaz, i mean thats so TRUE gal, nothing nice than a stolen thing they say! off to work
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May 29, 2012

SeshegoGuY

@Mzalaz
Lets get one thing Clear: Ur friend is a skepsel, Vaslap, Skroplap PERIOD!
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May 29, 2012

gaetswe

women so much love my name, it says it all!
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May 29, 2012

Ann

In general women want what other women have.
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SO TRUE!
mara nna if i see a bi*tch next to my man, o lebane ke petrol

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