@Randem

A little advice to the women, from a man’s point of view.

• Neurotic, psychotic behavior is NOT cute. Don’t fool yourself into thinking “he’ll love me because I’m quirky,” because men are logical. We need things to make sense, and while you think you’re “cute and quirky”, we think you’re totally whack-job, psycho, nutball, head-for-the-hills insane. It’s not cute.
• Snooping is stalking. I know you think your man is amazing, and you want to know everything about him. I know you just can’t get enough. But clicking through every one of his friends on myspace and reading everything about them isn’t getting to know him… it’s what stalkers do. It’s scary, and it’s the reason we don’t tell you more. We’re afraid of where else you’ll snoop, and what new, irrational argument we’re going to have to diffuse.
• Possessiveness, jealousy, and being territorial are the same fucking thing. You can’t be one without being the other. These are all irrational responses to fear, and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to deal with the real fear that is causing it.
• Accusations will blow up in your face. This is an important thing to understand. When you allow jealousy (see above) to get to you, and you start making accusations, this tells us one thing quite clearly: that you don’t trust us. But we men hate to be accused of something we haven’t done. If we’re going to serve the sentence, we may as well commit the crime. And when it’s done, you’ll wear it like a badge saying “I knew it,” never realizing that you caused it. Either you trust your man or you don’t… there is no middle ground.
• The man you’re with is not your ex. That’s why it’s called an “ex”… because it’s over. Don’t judge your man based on what the last man did. Otherwise, it leads to accusations (see above) and that just leads to trouble.
• When we say “no,” what we mean is “NO”. I understand that when you women say “no,” you’re really thinking “oh, I’ll eventually say yes, but I want him to keep asking,” but that’s not the case for us. We men are logical. We think things through before we make decisions… and we hate to close the door on options… so if a man said “no,” you can be sure that he’s considered all of that and he’s decided that the answer is no.

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