Does this story illustrate the difference between the way men and women think?

[Lliam]

Her diary entry:
"My husband was acting very strange tonight. We agreed to have dinner in our favorite restaurant.

I went shopping all day with my girlfriends and was a little late to the restaurant, I thought this was what made him upset. The conversation did not stick together and I suggested we move to a quieter place so we could talk in peace. He agreed, but it didn't get more talkative.

I asked him what happened, and he said nothing happened. I asked him if it was my fault for being upset. He said that he's not at all upset, that it's not my fault, and that there is absolutely nothing to worry about.

I told him I loved him on the way home. He smiled and kept watching the road. I can't explain his behavior, I can't understand why he didn't say he loves me too. When we got home I felt like I had completely lost him that he wanted nothing to do with me. He was just quietly sitting on the couch watching tv. He still seemed so distant and isolated. Finally, just like that, in complete silence, I said I was going to bed.

After 15 minutes, he also came to the bedroom. I felt something was bothering him and his thoughts were somewhere far away. He fell asleep and I cried at midnight. I don't know how to be. I know his mind is somewhere else. My life is falling apart... "

His diary that day:
"The motorcycle never started and I can't figure out why."

[lightbulb27]

OH MY GOD!!! I predicted the ending. I love this, this is hillarious fact and you shouldn't post it here, it should be in a training book or video.

Women need that constant emotional connection. Guys figure they connected at some prior point, maybe last Sunday when he got her flowers... and she's still "good". He's compartmentalized in his mind, not communicating, and she seeks constant reassurance of emotion.

Easily solved by getting close at dinner, snuggling up, holding her hand and tenderly but clearly saying..."honey, I love you, but my motorcycle didn't start today. I think I need some after market reeds and a big bore kit...". :)))))

[Lliam]

Exactly. You nailed it. LOL

[Guy13]

Women want emotional and this guy is disconnected from cheating or crush. She's out the door emotionally already which means likely someone she can invest into emotionally that's not the unwilling husband. She tried and his fault when divorced.

[Lliam]

"disconnected from cheating or crush"? How did you get that out of the story?

He was mildly preoccupied. And it's true that he didn't communicate. He could have easily told her what he was preoccupied about. In the real world, that's what he should have done.

But this fictional story was a joke meant to illustrate how men are simplistic and women's minds never stop whirring and spinning with endless possible scenarios, assumptions, worries and analysis of every tiny thing that "might" be going on.

Bottom line, when a man says nothing is wrong, they literally mean that nothing is wrong.

And why did you immediately go to divorce?

[TrueConfection]

🤣🤣🤣 Yes, you nailed it. My husband was also roaring with laughter when I read this to him.

[TrueConfection]

Thank you for the MHO ❤

[Lliam]

My wife did the same thing when I read it to her. It was a well crafted joke. The final punch line was priceless.

A friend of mine posted it on Facebook and I and I had to share.

It's a common cliche, which means that there is some truth to it.

Years ago, I read an essay written by a mom about her teen age son and daughter. She described how her daughter and her girlfriends would spend hours gossiping and analyzing things that happened at school like what a person wore, a person's subtle facial expression, not what they said the way they said it, etc. Just like the wife did in the joke.
Then she said her son was totally different and concluded that boys have four emotions - mad, sad, happy and hungry. LMAO They don't analyze at all.

[TrueConfection]

I'm glad you shared, it was funny. Yes, there is a lot of truth to that joke.

[Gummy_Cluster]

That's just funny as fuck. Men are from Mars, and women are from Venus.

[D_Bone_Steak]

Pretty on point on the real difference. Women have all that fucking dialog. I only see men have that shit when they're sexually frustrated and in the middle of a rejection.

Not joking... a dude will write that kind of long shit when he knows he's getting cheated on or some shit... Best way I can put it... dudes don't make up their own emotions for every god damn thing... at least not like chicks do unless you're watching some of the best crime stuff on youtube.

[Pegases]

Lmfao. Awesome story. In a way yea. But men and women often overthink the same these days. A mixture of chronic social media use, and overstimulation is to blame.

[SnowedIn]

yes... Yes... YES! This is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO spot on.

[Anonymous]

So true! It reminds me of this classic.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XIJYO4u5iug

[Sevenpointfive]

no it doesn't but the prose is fine. i'd keep working on it

[Lliam]

I didn't write it. It was a joke that a friend posted on Facebook.

[Sevenpointfive]

i wouldn't want to be in her situation lol. not knowing the person i married

[exitseven]

That is exactly the way it really is.

[Grond21]

Every time I read this it strikes me as so true