NuevaVida -> RE: How do women WISH men acted - and likewise - how do men WISH women acted, in turn? (1/19/2013 10:16:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: evesgrden I just happened to come across that this morning and thought "ok, toss that out there and put that topic to rest". I should add that I hold men in VERY high regard, and in fact I actually prefer the company of men more than women. Always have. ... and I happen to be quite monogamous. But let's face it, in general, men have different wants and needs than women do in a relationship. IN GENERAL. If you want to know what the other wants, ASK. Yeah I know, color me radical. If the other person is constantly asking/nagging for something that you don't want to give then perhaps you need to consider whether you're (generic) compatible or not. If you're constantly being asked to do something you don't want, consider whether you're compatible. This post got me thinking about something I posted recently in another thread. I'm not going to ask or expect someone to do or be anything he isn't, and I don't want to do or be anything I'm not. This is why I said with the Mister - I just want him to be him. Throughout the time we were getting to know each other, I viewed it as simply, "We're being who we are, and showing the other person who we are." From there, each of us could decide on compatibility. So he loves football. So I *like* football but don't share the same love. Am I going to ask or expect that he not watch every game that he usually watches? Not at all. I'm going to accept this part of him, and know that when a game is on, I can see it as my time to do my own thing, if I don't want to watch, and if he isn't insisting that I sit with him and watch. There are things about him that I don't relate to, but if I can live with them (since I don't believe in trying to change someone into something they're not), then I can accept him and live peacefully with his idiosyncrasies, just as he does with mine. I *am* a social butterfly, and I *do* talk a lot, and I *do* like pampering and primping. If he didn't like that in someone, he'd do best to be with a woman who didn't value those things. Sure we tease each other about our idiosyncrasies, and we actually find them charming in each other. But we both recognize we are different animals who have different tastes and desires. So while we can have fun comparing them, we accept those things in each other and have fun with them. Like, for example, when I'm spending "too much time" in the mirror tweaking my eyebrows or putting on make up, and he gripes about it, I laugh and say "Well I can always let my unibrow grow out and look like a man - is that what you want?" He laughs, smacks my ass and says "Just hurry up a bit, will ya?" and we move on. So my WISH, by way of the OP, is for him to be himself, and to have the freedom to totally be himself, and thankfully part of that is he enjoys a good razzing about how he is. Just as I do. I wouldn't want it any other way. Thankfully, he feels the same.
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