The difference is, the ones you're describing exhibit flaws that some women are convinced that they were born to fix.
"If only I could fix him, he'd be PERFECT!"
Not trying to toot any bad boy horn but I can confidently say I've lived a pretty exciting life...well...maybe not in the last four or five years but that's because I'm becoming old and decrepit, but I sure had a lot of fun.
And for some reason the women I wind up in long term relationships with always find me after they've exited a relationship with the poster child for bad boy syndrome.
My first wife was previously married to a famous Hollywood screenwriter.
He produced the original Red Dawn movie and "Raid On Entebbe", hung out with other famous "bad boys" like John Milius, Jan Michael Vincent, Gary Busey, he drove the requisite custom Porsche, and performed the requisite weekly or even daily beatings on his wife, after which he would magnanimously throw a few thousand in cash at her and tell her to "go shopping".
After one beating where he dislocated her upper jaw, broke her lower jaw and fractured her cheekbone, she had enough, and stuffed it all down for a few years and wandered into my life.
And then, about two or three years later, after enough booze and cocaine, all that previous baggage came boiling back up and suddenly it was as if she had psychologically pasted Barry's face over mine. She would even call me "Barry" while in one of her drunken hazes. I never laid a hand on her, not once.
So I guess I might have a bit of personal firsthand experience with the women who seek out bad boys. Linda spent years talking about how she wished she could just fix Barry's issues. Well, you can't. And sometimes some women go through their entire lives refusing to accept that.
Or...they go through life saying:
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My wife, the one I should have married in the first place...HER first husband, also a certifiable "bad boy". She paid innumerable DUI's, replaced innumerable wrecked cars, took beatings, bailed him out of jail on innumerable assault charges, etc.
And then he walked out on their marriage after she bore him a disabled son.
And I almost ended up shooting him one night in Dallas, after he threatened the both of us in our own home. No, I am not happy about that. Yes, I am glad it didn't happen.