That was well thought-out. You deserve a great relationship.
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.
Only I am!
I agree, respect and friendship is the key.
One of the most profound things I ever heard was “Would you treat a best friend the way you treat your spouse?”
As for hubby who threw away the CD, he was batchit crazy...on a scale of 1 to 10 of the worst things he did, it was a 1. Again, I married him for all the wrong reasons. I know it....
But, I won’t do it again.
Broken people attract broken people....like the chunks of a puzzle piece.
Sometimes its a good thing, sometimes though, it’s poison.
I think you have to look at the whys of the attraction.
BUMP!
You’re a better catch than to have to stay.
“Women are evil!” said to me my Indian friend recently, after my latest misadventure, punishment and public humiliation by a woman who not long ago declared she was my best friend.
Even more ‘oddly’ is that in the New Testament, husbands are told to LOVE their wives, while wives are told to RESPECT their husbands.
A woman who is loved is treated with ultimate respect and defended by her husband against threats.
A loving man who is respected by his wive does not put her down in the machismo-lowbrow-hillbilly-Clintonesque stereotype, he treats her as outlined in Proverbs 31.
Put me on that ping list - I adore watching the FReeper contingent of the He-Man Wimmin-Hater’s Club. They are endlessly entertaining! LOL
You’re on it ;)
I agree.
That is so true. I have to remember to post that statement in the next All-Wimmen-R-Evil thread. That should cause a furor.
She’s cheating on you.
Just kidding.
Or am I?
My Dad taught me (by example) to do that. I'm quite sure they must have disagreed sometime, but I never witnessed my parents exchanging bitter, angry or insulting words.
I hope that, maybe, I learned something from them.
Please add me also...as I enjoy them too (my Jane Austenish moments) ;)PaMom
OH! Najida - found a dance instructor!
No. FR is open to all. Just be prepared to defend any statement you may make. That is what makes the site so interesting.
(...but remember, there is not rule that says you have to respond to everyone that replys to one of your comment, you can simply ignore them.)
There might be some truth to that...
That was well thought-out. You deserve a great relationship.
Would you please add me to your “Wimmen R’Evil” ping list. Thanks.
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