Friday, 31 October 2008

• He Said, She Said: What Men and Women Do Wrong in Relationships

  This is a guest blog submitted by Supanamu and La_dolce_vida.
  
  A few days ago, we decided that we were gonna write a co-blog about what men and women do wrong in relationships and dating in general. The following is what we came up with. We hope that you guys read it with an open mind and heart and laugh along with us on this travesty we call "relationships". Obviously, our opinions are very gross overgeneralizations so please...don't get your panties/thongs/briefs/tighty whities into a bunch over it! Depending on the response we get, we may make this into an ongoing series.
  
  She said...
  
  1. Many men fail to communicate.
  
  Men have this problem where they go into shutdown mode as soon as they hear the words "We need to talk". They go into their cave to hibernate until the coast is clear (aka when the woman gets so tired of trying to get him to talk so she gives up). Men also have a tendency to brood when they are stressed or upset about something instead of sharing their worries with their significant other.
  
  2. Many men take their significant others for granted.
  
  Men seem to live by the old adage "You don't know what you've got until it's gone." Men get comfortable with their significant other and forget to say "please, thank you, I appreciate what you did for me, I appreciate you".
  
  3. Many men have screwed up priorities.
  
  Men sometimes place other things above their significant other on their list of priorities. Men sometimes use other things as an excuse as for not having time to put into the relationship or for not staying in the relationship at all.
  
  4. Many men let the romance die.
  
  All the romantic things men do at the beginning of the relationship some how disappears halfway into the relationship. Flowers? Gone. Date night? Poof! "I love you" is replaced with "what's for dinner?" "You look beautiful!" is replaced with "You're gonna wear that?!"
  
  5. Many men want to get back together for the wrong reasons.
  
  There are only two reasons why men would want to reunite with their ex: loneliness and booty (make-up sex). This is jacked up for more reasons than can be described because we all know that the relationship won't last long and the woman winds up getting heartbroken over and over again.
  
  6. Many men prey on the wrong/opposite type.
  
  Men sometimes go for the opposite of what they want so when she turns out to be a psycho/crazy/stalker chick from hell, they will make the proclamation, "All women are crazyyyyy!" The only way to make sense of why men do this is to believe that men sometimes suffer from temporary sanity loss.
  
  7. Many men are way too fickle.
  
  Men have relationships with women who offer more to the relationship than they can give. Then later in the relationship, they mistreat her for the things she does or says that attracted him to her in the first place. Example: They brag to their friends about how smart their girlfriend is but later resent her for wanting to go back to school because that means she'd have less time to spend with him.
  
  8. Many men are lazy.
  
  Some men have a tendency to just sit back and not put any effort or work into maintaining a healthy relationship with their significant other. Then they get bored and start having a wandering eye...
  
  9. Many men just can't be faithful.
  
  It is said that most men would cheat on their significant other if they knew they wouldn't get caught. Men were born to "spread their seeds" so with no surprise that monogamy is neither natural nor easy for them.
  
  10. Many men think with the wrong head.
  
  Sometimes...it's not that difficult to tell which head the man was thinking with when it comes to certain decisions/actions he's made. No further explanation is necessary. Ha!
  
  
  He said...
  
  1. Many women fail to communicate.
  
  Whether it's thundering around the house with a sourpuss face or giving the silent treatment for nineteen days straight without an explanation of what the man did wrong, women will withhold pertinent information until the very last minute, oftentimes resulting in an even larger argument when the man finally realizes why she is mad at him...all of which could have been avoided if she had simply communicated that she was pissed at him for drinking the last of the milk and putting the empty carton back in the refrigerator.
  
  2. Many women second-guess themselves.
  
  Constantly worrying about how they look to their man and everyone else, women sometimes convince themselves they're not attractive. They'll ask, "Does my butt look too big?" or "Are these new wrinkles!?" and the man is not allowed to answer truthfully, or he could get a fat karate chop to the throat. Don't ask rhetorical questions, ladies; your man's throat can't take it.
  
  3. Many women don't know their worth.
  
  With all the fashion magazines and superstar glamour model/actresses pushing ultra skinny, ultra beautiful as the unattainable goal for women everywhere, most women forget that they're more beautiful, more intelligent, more sexy and more real to their man than any of those other women.
  
  4. Many women assume their man is cheating.
  
  Men are dogs and there's no doubt about it - especially when you read statistics like "50% of men have admitted to cheating". This makes it hard for a woman to believe her man isn't cheating. But ladies, there's another 50% of men who don't cheat! And yet women will often stalk their man's MySpace/Facebook pages, scroll through their cellphone numbers, eavesdrop on conversations and generally act a fool when it comes to other women. And guess what…if you treat a man like he's cheating long enough, eventually he WILL cheat…or leave you. And neither of those are saucy alternatives.
  
  5. Many women nag to death.
  
  Your man isn't a child. But many women will remind him a hundred times when one reminder would have been enough. They will harp on the same complaint or repeatedly push for a change that the man isn't ready to make…or the worst, they'll bring up old arguments years after the argument was finished.
  
  6. Many women expect too much.
  
  Women have been raised to believe in an "ideal" man – one who embodies everything they look for in a lover, a father of their children, a mate. But the truth is that most men are not up to that challenge – they're normal, average guys. As much as you want them to be a knight in shining armor, it's just not always possible. Instead of berating your man for what he isn't, praise him for what he is…and maybe he'll grow into some of the other things. Or not. I'm guessing not.
  
  7. Many women have a double standard.
  
  They say they hate cheaters, but then they go out and cheat. They say they want respect and equality in the workplace, then they use their feminine wiles to advance. They say men and women should be equal in relationships, then they want the man to do all the heavy lifting.
  
  8. Many women gossip too much.
  
  Your man doesn't care who is sleeping with whom, which family just fell apart because the husband turned out to be gay, which coworker is in trouble for posing nude in a calendar…unless that coworker happens to be female, in which case, yes, he does care. Greatly. Get a copy and leave it under his pillow; you'll have great sex that night.
  
  9. Many women hate on their man's friends.
  
  You wish your man had different friends because his current friends are all dope-smoking, lazy-ass, no job having, good-for-nothing weasels who cheat on their girlfriends and wives and who, you are convinced, are trying to turn your man into a cheating, weasel faced, weed smoking, jobless idiot too. Problem is, ladies, your impression of your man's friends is skewed by jealousy. His friends take him away from you, and that's why you don't like them. They're really nice guys, and if you could get them away from their hookers and pot long enough, you'd see that.
  
  10. Many women try to change who their man is.
  
  A man has to want to change, and most men don't want to. They're happy being who they are, and they want their woman to accept them for that…don't want your man to dress sloppy? You should've dated a GQ model. Don't like your man watching sports all the time? You shouldn't have bought him the 42 inch flat panel and then signed him up for the HD Sports package. Don't like your man slobbering over hot girls all the time? You should've dated a woman.
  
  
  What do you think - are these pretty accurate? If not, how would you revise them? 
  
  
  

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