Early in a relationship a man LISTENS and tries to FIX.
Then a man learns not to fix.
Later a man learns not to listen.
Yeah, but that sounds a lot like blaming the female. I think men just don’t like to listen to women. It is not about them. They don’t care about the pretty flowers or when color of shirt to buy or whatever else uninteresting subject a woman wants to talk about. It is not just that they have “learned” to not listen because the woman does not take their advice. it’s that the men can be too selfish to step outside themselves and get involved in the woman’s interests for a little while. They turn their attentions to the woman when they want physical contact. For emotional interaction they turn to the guys, talking endlessly and emotionally about those five feet of the latest football play advance, or the latest tech gadget, or some car engine, etc. Totally uninteresting stuff.