Posted on 12/31/2014 1:54:00 PM PST by Delta Dawn
A thread was posted two days ago, (4 Huge Mistakes I Made As A Wife (I'm The Ex-Wife Now)), that detailed a former wife's regrets for the demise of her marriage that she now acknowledges was her fault.
Contained in this thread, Post 31, was a list of Rules detailing the expectations for women who are in relationships with men.
I mentioned this list to a female freeper friend and suggested that she peruse the list for possible future reference. In typical freeper fashion, this strong willed person read the list and added her own comments regarding the aforementioned. I thought that she hit it out of the park and so, with her permission, I am sharing with the rest of freeper-dom her take on the Men's Rules.
Uh oh, generalizing can get you in trouble. I’m neither in heat 24/7 or easy. Then again I’m not between the ages of 14-35 where that does seem to be an issue.
As I have been informed by my sister, who is the mother of a 14 year old boy, middle school girls are now using sex as a method of determining if a boy is worth of dating. Sad world.
Zactly.
There is no reason to beg, when there are plenty of women willing to say “Sure!”
Remember that when you get older and your ammunition doesn't have as many grains of powder as it once did.
Bingo.
Simple as that.
She’s single...
Oh, I'm serious. How in the world can someone choose to cry? How to you conjure up the emotion to cause tears to form in your eyes if you aren't really upset? Have you ever had women admit that they can do that? Or is this just what men think? (I'm assuming you're a man.)
Yah,but he's far more interested in your brother.
and sometimes that little guy just shoots wherever he wants to...
I think I will just stay alone. For the most part all I read was selfishness. I think very few people are capable of real love beyond their love of self, very few put others before self and that is what marriage is. I think a most people are only capable of acting because they have something to gain using those around them.
I spent more years than I care to admit hanging out in bars every night of the week. I saw all manner of dysfunction and manipulation. Yes, women cry on cue. Losing a drunken argument? Cry. Crying was invariably the response across the board. The spigot gets turned on to get out of speeding tickets to great success too, and turned off as soon as the officer is gone, I’ve seen that one first hand to my great amazement. If you can’t do this, you’re the exception, not the rule.
Geralizing as I did is the norm for today’s women.....otherwise is an exception if not a rarity.
Frankly I don’t think men care any more if a woman sleeps around like they do......they’re teaching children in grade school how to have sex so obvious those coming next will have no problem meeting up and going to it at will.
I have to say though....the men I’ve occassioned in my life found they had to re-learn how to enjoy the chase ......and they loved doing so.
It’s really comical as they struggle to figure that out when they’ve been so accustomed to easy woman.
Agreed. I let my hair grow out because I got tired of fooling with hair products and tools and still not having my hair look right. All you really have to do with long hair is keep it clean and brushed. You can do cool things with it, but that’s optional.
Bkmk
Agreed. I let my hair grow out because I got tired of fooling with hair products and tools and still not having my hair look right. All you really have to do with long hair is keep it clean and brushed. You can do cool things with it, but that’s optional.
I haven’t spent much time in bars, so I don’t know about that. But, I’ve been pulled over by a cop a few times in my life and a few of those times I was very scared probably got teary-eyed. I certainly never did that on purpose. Now, I didn’t cry and beg to not get a ticket. I just got upset that I got stopped. Tears just happen when you’re scared or upset.
Now, I can imagine fake crying where there are no tears. I can believe that some women might do that, but if there are tears, it can’t be purposeful. I feel like I’ve spent my life trying to blink away and hide tears. Who wants to cry? I certainly don’t. It makes you feel like you are out of control. But not once have I ever turned them on when I wasn’t “feeling it.” I couldn’t if I wanted to.
I’m trying to think of an equivalent thing that men might be able to relate to. Can you give yourself an adrenaline rush without doing anything other than trying to conjure it up in your mind? You’ll probably say that you can. :-)
I agree with this completely. But I take the post more as humor than complete seriousness. Maybe I am wrong.
I was at one point amazed by it and asked how it's done. Apparently, you fake crying and while beginning to do so remember something that actually did make you cry. The combination of going through the motions and summoning the emotions will make genuine tears. There is no stigma for women crying, and often it's rewarded. The more manipulative learn this lesson all too well.
“So is yelling.”
Men don’t usually have great “emotional coping mechanisms”. We’ve got 3 basic ways to express our emotions: yell, hit/break stuff, or get drunk (because then we can cry when we are drunk and still think ourselves manly). Maybe some more “evolved” types can learn to paint a picture or play the bongos, but those 3 are usually what we start out with.
So, since yelling is usually the least destructive of the three, to a guy can actually seem like it is “good behavior”. If a guy can’t yell, and he won’t do one of the other 2, or find some other outlet, then he’s just going to bottle it all up and then he’ll end up in crazytown. So, think of it as “therapy”.
Well, maybe I'm just innocent and would never think of manipulating a man (or anyone, for that matter). I remember being young and starting to cry and having men react with, "Oh, no. Don't cry!" as if I had any control over it. It always hurt when I was accused of doing it on purpose. I guess I'm just not a manipulator.
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