It will take "anywhere from five to 15 laser sessions, with eight weeks of healing time in between" for Kat Von D to remove her tattoo of Jesse James' face. That sounds about right, because when you date a bad boy, it will take just as long or maybe longer to get him out of your heart...

Here are some of the signs I, or people I know, have seen and flat out ignored, only to have our hearts broken months (or even years) later.

Courtesy, respect and confidence are attractive qualities. Going overboard to please someone isn't.

You know how whenever you're feeling a little big for your britches, you'll get an earth-shatteringly embarrassing flashback that puts you right back in your place?

It happens to every woman. You wake up and realize you're living a cliché. You're a good girl who is infatuated with a bad boy.

Sexual prowess will not convert him, your never-dying devotion will not turn him around, nothing will change the man he is fundamentally.