Dear Joe:

It is possible that she likes tough guys, like her ex boyfriend who “fancied himself as a Soprano or Godfather type”-  man who will not hold her hand in public, like you  did (and she got angry at you for PDA).

When she told you that she “likes people who are persistent”, maybe she meant that she likes men who are aggressively persistent, like a Godfather type. When you reached out to her in a loving-and-gently persistent way, she didn’t like  it.

What I am saying is that it’s a possibility that she is attracted to tough, insensitive, rude guys and not to the affectionate, kind and decent man that you appear to be.

anita