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TO WOMEN: How to Build A lasting Relationship
1/20/08 | bear_slayer

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.


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To: ArrogantBustard

I tell my wife that I love her all of the time. I also tell that to my kids. I always knew it from my parents, but they never said it until I was older.

My wife and I also fight. Not a lot. But we dont hide our disagreements. This is intentional. We want our kids to know that two people that love each other CAN disagree. We also want them to know that when someone gets mad, it doesnt mean the world is going to fall apart forever.

If the path were just a straight line of agreement life would really suck.


261 posted on 01/21/2008 10:47:37 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
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To: Bear_Slayer

Try reading that to your wife. And try showing her those stupid pictures. Get back to me after you pick yourself up off the floor and your head wound heals.


262 posted on 01/21/2008 10:47:57 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Grizzled Bear

Is there really a “Wimmen R Evil” ping list? While not a bitter person, I would like to get on that list.


263 posted on 01/21/2008 10:48:34 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: dr_who_2
You may be splitting hairs in this case.


264 posted on 01/21/2008 10:48:58 AM PST by BJClinton (*sigh*)
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To: bannie
Women are either teases or bitches. Never met one that was different.
You’re dating girls...not women.


I will think about what you have said. Scary thing is that these women have always been around my age.

265 posted on 01/21/2008 10:49:35 AM PST by racing fan
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To: Just another Joe
"... if I die in my sleep, that's the last words out of my mouth I want her to hear and remember.


Those thoughts cross my mind on occassions as well. Your wife is a very lucky woman.

266 posted on 01/21/2008 10:50:33 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN
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To: najida
One of the most profound things I ever heard was “Would you treat a best friend the way you treat your spouse?”

I treat my spouse MUCH better than I treat my best friend.
That's a no brainer.

My spouse is in the house while I sleep and has access to sharp pointy things, ;^)

Besides that my best friend isn't NEAR as good looking as my spouse.

(Let's see, have I hit them all? Oh yeh...)

In addition, my best friend can only put itching powder in my underwear while I'm wearing them.

Sorry, Najida, I just couldn't resist. LOL

267 posted on 01/21/2008 10:51:29 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: ArrogantBustard

gen·der (jndr)
n.
1. Grammar
a. A grammatical category used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.
b. One category of such a set.
c. The classification of a word or grammatical form in such a category.
d. The distinguishing form or forms used.
2. Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture.
3.
a. The condition of being female or male; sex.
b. Females or males considered as a group: expressions used by one gender.
tr.v. gen·dered, gen·der·ing, gen·ders
To engender.


268 posted on 01/21/2008 10:51:33 AM PST by bannie (clintons CHEAT! AAAALLWAYS!)
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To: Vermont Lt

Disagreeing is one thing.

Being disagreeable is quite another.

And being constantly angry and bitter with each other is no way to live. Likewise, control-freakery, and mind-games ...


269 posted on 01/21/2008 10:52:29 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

It’s my list,
I’ll add you to it (and actually start pinging folks too)

It’s not bitter, it’s just for balance and perspective really.


270 posted on 01/21/2008 10:53:44 AM PST by najida (I am so grateful that stupid isn't contagious.)
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To: najida

Thanks!


271 posted on 01/21/2008 10:54:27 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: najida

Please add me to your growing ping list...post 255 was supposed to be to you...but I am FReeping from my cell phone and this tiny screen isn’t my middle agd eyes best choice of font....aaaaarrrrrgh! PaMom


272 posted on 01/21/2008 10:54:55 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen.)
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To: Bear_Slayer

LOL. I think you’ve found just the ticket to achieve maximum results!


273 posted on 01/21/2008 10:56:41 AM PST by LucyJo
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To: bannie

A Portrait of the Artist.

274 posted on 01/21/2008 10:56:57 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: dhot

275 posted on 01/21/2008 10:57:41 AM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: umgud
Oh, and please learn to leave the toilet seat up.

My husband says the same thing, basically, neither has a right to complain - just be a grownup and be responsible for whether the toilet seat is how YOU like it before using it.

276 posted on 01/21/2008 10:59:02 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (If MY people who are called by MY name -- the ball's in our court, folks.)
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To: ladyjane

The most terrifying, humbling, sickening, enlightening moment is when you find yourself involved with a monster, is realizing that something in you is a reflection or compliment to the monster.


277 posted on 01/21/2008 10:59:44 AM PST by najida (I am so grateful that stupid isn't contagious.)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

You’re on it (golly, 3 new members just today).


278 posted on 01/21/2008 11:01:26 AM PST by najida (I am so grateful that stupid isn't contagious.)
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To: teenyelliott

I have to invoke Godwin’s Law ...

You Lose!


279 posted on 01/21/2008 11:02:08 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: bannie

Last one was an Asian chick (I’m white) that I disposed of yesterday. Nice girl, pain in ass. She wasn’t worth it.


280 posted on 01/21/2008 11:02:20 AM PST by racing fan
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