[HitmanLV]

Remember there is an enormous institutional support system that encourages (and some might say drives) this. Womens tv talk shows, magazines, their friendship network, conventional wisdom, etc. drives that idea: that women's 'concerns' in a relationship are more important than a man's concerns.

I'm 37 and I know many women of a variety of ages (23-50s) and most of them are not in fulfilling relationships. I know a lot of men in the same boat.

Like I have said many times, whenever I meet somebody (male or female) and they tell me they want a completely 'honest and open' relationship, I know that they have never actually have been in an honest and open relationship! Most people can't handle it - I find that men and women who say stuff like that really just want whatever springs from their fertile minds applauded, validated, and encouraged.

The truth is that a lot of concerns that women enjoy a lopsided benefit of (that is, they won't entertain a balanced and reciprocal responsibility to accommodate the man in their lives comparably, while insisting that their concerns are fully accommodated) is largely fueled by a lot of applause, validation, and encouragement by media, friends, acquaintances, etc.

What is remarkable is that a lot of those people giving the support clearly don't have satisfying relationships. You are what you eat, after all.

[chris1]

Other than a few Freeper women on here, MOST women in our age group want their needs all met while not feeling any sense of obligation to meeting the mans' needs. In fact, mens' needs are often diminshed and made to seem insignificant and laughed at.