I don't mind so much that she asks. I do wish that when I give the honest reply "Nothing," I would be taken seriously. All too often the ensuing discussion turns into a subtle power game, the rules of which I don't really understand, and which wearies me.
When my now-60-year-old widowed neighbor was a young bride, one of her aunts gave her this advice: "You can keep a messy house; you can burn the food; but as long as you respect him and jump his bones from time to time, he'll never leave."
That's the formula, ladies. That's the secret to men.
Yep.
I find that with my guys - they are really thinking about something that is too complex to be answered in one line.
What are you thinking about... would become... "I was thinking about maybe buying a new office building around the corner from blah blah blah... "
Which is still in the early stages of constructive thought - therefore, hard to discuss.
Know what I mean?