Bossy girlfriend

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Speaking of which, I moved in with my girlfriend after seeing her for 3 months. Yesterday.

You recovered from your messy breakup quick

[JohnT]

Girls aren't always forthcoming about what their real issues are.

I'm thinking that the vast majority of women, had they read the above, would bust a gut laughing.

[MikeH]

Yeah, they do it's just that we don't really believe something like whatever it is they've told us could really be that important.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by JohnT

Girls aren't always forthcoming about what their real issues are.

I'm thinking that the vast majority of women, had they read the above, would bust a gut laughing.

Why? Maybe that has been your experience, but my experience is that a woman will be more willing to operate in a state of denial than a man will. Women act on their emotions. They get an emotion - they dont always know where it came from - but they then act on that emotion. Men act on logic. So, as a man you need to be aware of this to troubleshoot relationship problems properly.

I've been dating for over 30 years, and you - you are married, right? So I'm confident that I have a good sampling of women on which to base my opinions. Your wife and female relatives do not equal "the vast majority of women".

[MikeH]

See I interpret that data like this:

You have been dating for 30 years - you don't understand women which is why you keep splitting up with them.
He's still married so he does.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by MikeH
See I interpret that data like this:

You have been dating for 30 years - you don't understand women which is why you keep splitting up with them.
He's still married so he does.

Well, think again. I'm not married because I prefer to experience a variety of women. I split up with them when they want to get too serious. I've probably forgotten more about female behavior than you what you understand about it... Maybe he got married because he found one woman that he finally understood and latched onto her because it was too stressful to deal with the others that he couldn't figure out.. Nothing wrong with that, by the way, but that's not me. And if it were me, I certainly wouldnt go around making blanket statements about my understanding of "the vast majority of women".

[MikeH]

Anyway, he actually only said they'd laugh, he didn't say whether or not he agreed with them in their laughter.

In my personal experience us men are just as irrational and emotional as women. We just try and hide it more.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
And che's single life was over

I wasn't doing anything with it anyway. I suffered from severe shyness and low self-esteme. Looking back, I now realize there were a number of very hot women who were practically throwing themselves at me, but I was too down on myself and to shy to try anything for fear of rejection.

Now I have all kinds of confidence, but I'm no longer young and svelte, and I have a wife. Youth is definately wasted on the young.

[JohnT]

Mike speaks da truth.

[JohnT]

So, as a man you need to be aware of this to troubleshoot relationship problems properly.

I don't have relationship problems.

And I'm aware that men are as emotional as women are... they just deny it better.

[MikeH]

Originally posted by JohnT
And I'm aware that men are as emotional as women are... they just deny it better.

I'm thinking that the vast majority of women, had they read the above, would bust a gut laughing.

[JohnT]

How about:

"And I'm aware that men are as emotional as women are... they're just better at self-denial about this issue."

[Last Conformist]

"Fair"? There's no such thing as fairness in love.

But I think the board consensus is right - if she breaks up over you not wanting to move in after a mere three-month relationship, in all likelihood something is seriously enough wrong with her that you're probably better off without her.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by MikeH

In my personal experience us men are just as irrational and emotional as women. We just try and hide it more.

Yeah, I saw a lot of guys fighting back tears when I took my girl to the cinema to see Titanic...

If a man has a high level of estrogen in his system perhaps he is just as irrational and emotional as a woman.

In general terms, however, I disagree with you.

[JohnT]

In a denial about men's emotionality, BFG gets a little irked and retorts with a sarcastic comment about Titanic.

So, what were you saying again, BFG?