A WOMAN is playfully seeing how her new boyfriend will react to a pitiless dissection of everything he is, enjoys, or hopes to be.
Lauren Hewitt decided to have fun with new boyfriend Jack Browne by lightheartedly tearing down his appearance and all of his thoughts and actions with vicious intensity to see if he is worthy of being her long-term partner.
She said: “Pushing a man to the limits of human patience is the best part of the honeymoon period. Far better than all that exhausting shagging.
“I start small by mocking his taste in clothes, pop culture and friends. If he spinelessly agrees that he’s wrong for liking all those then I’m ready to move on and humorously disparage his career and lifelong interests.
“Timing’s important. If I wait until he’s drifting off to sleep before questioning why he walks the way he does or teasing him about his inverted nipples, then he’s vulnerable and those words really settle into his psyche.
“Relentlessly undermining him might sound mean, but it’s a great way to find out how he copes under pressure. He needs to fold. I don’t need anyone standing up to me. What kind of marriage would that be?”
Browne said: “I raised my eyebrows at Lauren’s choice of shoes once and spent the next six hours apologising.”
