Both are required reading.
Posted on 01/20/2008 9:42:43 PM PST by Bear_Slayer
Now obviously I can't speak for every male, but I feel qualified to speak in general terms.
This is aimed at the married woman, but is applicable to the woman that is involved in a long term relationship.
Learn these things and you might get your relationship to last. Ignore them at your peril.
1. He is not your zit. Stop picking at him.
Women love to pick at zits. They'll sneak up on you while you're shaving and start squeezing. It's an annoying habit they can't break. They also do this emotionally and intellectually. This is done when they ask us silly questions like:
"Do you love me because you need me, our need me because you love me?"
The fact is we love you and need you. Beyond that, we have no idea. Some invisible rock hit us in the head one day and we realized we can't live without you, until you drive us insane, then we can't live with you.
Similar questions are along the lines of, "Do these pants make my butt look big?"
The fact is, you have a big butt and your butt makes those pants look big. Another fact: we don't care. When the invisiable rock hit us, it didn't clue us in that you had a big butt; it simply made us aware of the fact, "Girl nice. Me like girl, lot."
I knew a woman once that had a big butt. She wasn't even the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, but the invisible rock was huge and I would have crawled through broken glass to be with her if she were single.
You have a big butt. Get over it. If you are constantly aware of your own big butt, you will make us constantly aware of it and you don't want that.
2. It's ok for him to compare you to his mother, as in, "That's not how my mother does it."
The fact is our mother is the only significant woman that ever loved us, until you came along. She fed, bathed, dress, nurtured, encouraged and loved us -- and we like how our mom made our potatos, cookies, &etc. Don't change the recipe. We like it that way. There is nothing Freudian about it.
3. Don't expect a deep relationship and don't try to draw us into meaningful conversations.
We're not comfortable exploring our inner feelings. Most guys don't trust their feelings and the smarter ones recognize that its their feelings that got them into the relationship in the first place.
Do you want a meaningful relationship? Go sip lattes with your friends and explore each other's cavernous feelings. It's a level you can all relate to and prop one another up.
4. Don't trust everything your girlfriend tells you.
Just because they read it in Redbook or Ms. does not make it so. Those magazines are written by women, for women, that grew up on Danielle Steele.
And don't ask us. We don't know and we're not that complicated anyways. If you simply watch us, without over-analyzing you'll figure us out. At a basic level we eat, we sleep, we copulate, and we play sports. Not necessarily in that order and not necessarily at different times.
5. You don't always have to be talking.
Men can communicate through subtle mechanisms. It's how we know when a woman likes us, or when the guy across the bar is looking for a fight, etc.
6. Don't make us carry you through life.
We're trying to get through it also. We'll be happy to stand in front and take some of the blows, but listen, carry your own baggage. We got our own to deal with.
Lastly,
When the big rock hit us, it really didn't matter what you looked like on the outside. Love is blind. We fell in love with the way your eyes twinkle when you smile. When you giggle when we say something silly or funny. And yes, even the way your breasts look in that tight sweater. However, none of that will matter ever again if you screw it up by driving us insane.
A friend is fond of addressing that point with:
If you ask what I'm thinking, and I say "nothing", I really do mean it! There truly is nothing going on upstairs at the time. Really: nothing is going on in there! Sometimes - often - I am merely existing, which often happens without further contemplation.
Just a wild guess: You're not married to her yet, right?
I’m gonna catch heat for this, but I CAN’T STAND WOMEN WHO CRY. It’s manipulative. Period. It’s not gonna going to get better for you, my friend...
Both are required reading.
Ping for later reference. (Great thread!)
I read about the big brouhaha when Rosie O'D. was there.
Barbara gets on my last nerve, and I can't stomach Rosie O'D., so I've never been interested in it.
Can I wait for the movie?
I agree with you. We women are under constant pressure to be thin, young, busty and beautiful. We're made to feel worthless if we're not. All men have to do in reply to the "does this make me look fat" questions are reassure their wives that they find them beautiful. Is that so difficult?
Compromise: get the audiobook.
My question-
How do I get my hubby to do that to ME?!!!
And any decent man should be able to handle it.
My girlfriend is actually mentally ill, I think. She can cry two or three times in an afternoon, literally. And I'm talking about over nothing. It's so bad that I remember the dates where she doesn't cry.
In the first six months of our relationship, she cried every single time we got together. Initially, I just wrote it off to her somewhat recent divorce but now I've realized she's just what I call an emosturbator - someone who masturbates their emotions.
“No, but that box of bon-bons does.”
Please let me know when you do!
I’d like to add to it.
I watch The View to prepare myself for work.
ROFL!!!! Perfect term for it.
nitially, I just wrote it off to her somewhat recent divorce
Hmmmmmm ...
I’ll send you a ping.
Does she have a sister????!
Please do (I’ll help)
For the time being, this thread gets sent to the “Wimmen R’Evil” archive.
“...Initially, I just wrote it off to her somewhat recent divorce..”
Aha!
Avoid the “recently divorced” like the plague.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.