Women are more self reliant than they’re given credit for. Men are in fact more dependent on women.
I think it goes fruther than even that.....they’re designed to be ‘complete’ with a wife.
For want of saying this in a better way....God took Adam’s Rib and “formed” woman, called such because she was taken from man..... I often wonder if man’s deep desire for woman ‘companionship’ comes from the idea that when he is with her he feels complete again.
When male friends and family members speak of meeting the one they marry...it is not uncommon they do say “she completes” me.
I noted with my sons growing up how diferrently they spoke of the women they would marry over that of the other girls they had dated as they spoke about them. There was a marked change in their tone as they spoke, how they defined them etc. I knew in both that they were going to end up marrying these woman before I met them and before they announced so.
So there’s something rather “mysterious” about how a man loves a woman and his desire for her which I don’t think woman have for men.....and it’s very deep and powerful, and why a breakup or divorce or death shatters men so. They are truly broken souls for quite sometime.
It is true, but even so, it was never easy after I had lost the man I have loved for 21 years.