What's Your Man's Fighting Style?

http://health.yahoo.com/ ^ | Tue, Jul 24, 2007, 8:47 am PDT | David Zinczenko

[Lucky9teen]

How about adding "Victim" to that list, with someone who is argumentative and always has to be right?

[Greg F]

Weak list. Must be a newlywed. He left out the “intentional misunderstanding” where you shift the grounds of argument to something else, the “Did you hear about” where you shift the conversation to some gossip where someone did something even worse than you did, the “You must feel awful about that” where you simply empathize with whatever your wife is feeling, even if you don’t understand it or why you are responsible for it, and the “I’ve promised the kids” where you claim some need to escape that also benefits your wife by giving her some free time . . .

Rank amateur.

[A_perfect_lady]

I’d rather deal with the D.A. type, because that’s how I am. I can understand that type.

[StarCMC]

Competitive.

[potlatch]

Are you really “battering ram competitive” Star? Strangely I have never been really competitive, perhaps too easy going!!

[potlatch]

[“intentional misunderstanding” where you shift the grounds of argument to something else,]

These threads always interest me but isn’t what you wrote really getting into dishonesty and maneuvering, rather than honestly discussing something to try to solve it?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

"What's your man's fighting style?"

[Greg F]

These threads always interest me but isn’t what you wrote really getting into dishonesty and maneuvering, rather than honestly discussing something to try to solve it?
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2 responses. 1) Yes, I have legal training, I just can’t help myself. 2) A lot of problems with women, in my experience, go away once a man realizes that a woman isn’t aiming at solving a problem, but just wants understanding and assurance.

[potlatch]

Ahh, good response there!! I abhor dishonesty and that’s why I wrote.

Yes, as a woman I say you are correct about the understanding and assurance part, but I do like to ‘solve the problem’ too!!

[lowbridge]

My Chuck Norris Fu Is Strong.

[lowbridge]

[Greg F]

Yes, as a woman I say you are correct about the understanding and assurance part, but I do like to ‘solve the problem’ too!!

I had an old Italian fellow, married for decades, explain to me when I was newly married that women aren't idiots; they see the same solutions we do most of the time. His strategy was: "The basement at work flooded? Oh, that must have really interfered with your day! Did your shoes get wet?" I've laughed and laughed over the years at how well it "works" to NOT solve problems.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Arrrrr! What a bunch of cowardly Milquetoasts these answers be!
Ye must take the fight to the enemy!



"The gentlemen may cry, Peace peace! but there is no peace. The war between the sexes has actually begun!"
-- Patrick Henry -- unedited actual quote ;^)

[potlatch]

LOL, I’m thinking you must enjoy ‘working’ endlessly on the problem rather than solving it!!

[potlatch]

[What a bunch of cowardly Milquetoasts these answers be! ]

Not being a history buff and judging by Patrick Henry’s quote, I’m wondering if he was married, lolol.

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

[StarCMC]

No — HIS is competitive! LOL!!!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Anybody wanna arm-wrestle?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Being too coy to come in from the rain—or too cheap to spring for an umbrella for your big night out is NOT a fighting style ! ;^)

[potlatch]

[No — HIS is competitive! LOL!!!]

Lol, that’s better! And you are just a ‘sweetie pie’ like me, huh??