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.
why is that?
I want to have input also.
Ladies; On a long (cross country) car trips, at night, through mountain passes don't be surprised if we are in no mood to chit chat!
You can "multi task." Most men can't. We need focus on the task.
Not exactly on topic with what you posted but it reminded me of that!
It depends on the crying. Seriously, crying for no reason and just because is a major symptom of clinical depression. In a young person or a child, its often a signal of abuse or molestation.
I don’t cry often, but when I do, katie-bar-the-door. It means I’ve either reached my total limit of stress or some human or pet I love has died.
Mail me your input and I’ll work it into the article.
for your husband. :-)
lol!
As my often divorced buddy puts it: “If you have to work on your relationship it’s not a partnership it’s a job.......and I have one of those already”
the key word there is “recent.”
This applies to “recently divorced” men as well.
Please let me know when you do!
I want to have input also.
Sounds like the makings of a ping list!
Please ping me to your Men's "How to build a lasting relationship."
Consider it done.
I love women.
Maybe I’ll met one that is different someday.
Oh please.
But thanks for the laugh.
Oh,
Crying at movies, TV shows or sappy commercials is an exception (I was squalling last night while watching Extreme Home Makeover).
OMG, this is one that kills me.
Why do women insists on having their own Grima Wormtongue advisor; usually one that is totally unqualified to give advice on relationships?
Here is a list of the best friends who my last 2 exes listened to on men and relationships:
1) A 45 year old, never been married, not had a date in a half year, out of work yenta
2) A twice divorced, out of work, welfare queen, pot smoker, whose only relationships are with married men, so she is a homewrecker as well
Consider the source ladies!
Oh wait....
You can’t be so desperate that you have to play the supporting cast in someone's “Psycho-drama” just to avoid being alone.
If you aren’t happy in the relationship, and there’s no way to solve the differences, do both of you a favor and end it.
Then volunteer your spare time. You will meet ladies with similar interests.
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You have to see my post (like 155 or something). I have run into this a few times in the past year.
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