“Women more unhappy than men.” Your thoughts?

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ManOnFire · Accepted Answer

In general I think it's true. Women tend to be emptier than men and are never satisfied. It's the reason why they generally "need a change" much more than men do. They perpetually seek a change in external things - and partners - in an effort to increase their happiness, never considering that the ultimate change begins with the self, never wanting to look inward and question what's lacking.

Also women are not as challenged in life as men are. Generally over time men become more cultivated by life and having to do your work to climb higher or attain more goodness and personal wealth - which isn't always monetary. Women are more often given everything by everyone - whether it's money, opportunities, emotional support, or even sex. So they are challenged less in life. Less challenge means you haven't used much of your inner muscles to create your own world, your own solutions, happiness, or contentment, because subconsciously you are always expecting to receive something from external sources to build you up.

Although a lot of men like to say that women have it easier in life - and in some ways that is true - at the end of the day women are still dealing with inner turmoil of their own. The difference is that they are less inclined to want to use their inner muscles to work that turmoil away. They still need external emotional support from others, and even attention from people on Instagram and Facebook to all their posts and pictures.

Oigit · Accepted Answer

I think it's part of a broader issue and men might be better at covering up their unhappiness. In general people that never learn how to be happy own their own are destined to be unhappy. Since people get so caught up in dating and relationships in high school and never really stop. So they never give themselves the opportunity to learn to be happy on their own. Then you add in the fact that we treat dating and relationships as if they are necessity for living. That only compounds the issue. Not dating or being in a relationship will not kill you like not breathing or eating will. Stop acting like they will.

Women not dating or being in a relationship will not kill you. Men learning to be happy alone can be tough. Since being a "real man" means taking on challenges it's a challenge you should take on.

19magic · Accepted Answer

Yeah I can see that, sometimes I think it's cuase there's no goal no reason for doing all of this. Other times it's cuase woman with kids tends to both work and then deal with all the house and kid stuff while their men just work and come home and relax.

But I do notice it with myself and a big part of that is being completely unable to rent a place of my own as the rent is always too high. Or landlords says no to kids even though it's a 2 bed place

lrina · Accepted Answer

their lives are easier than mens lives for the most part, however i feel like most of them are less tough so they can subdue to misery and pain easier, therefore often making them more unhappy than men. just my opinion though

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I think this is explained by the fact that women tend to be more introspective than men and ruminate more on their failre too accomplish the fairy tale life that was their childhood fantasy.

AncientWisdom · Answer

Right now I see more unhappy people then ever. Women are unhappy. I don’t really understand why, they have it made they can do anything they want and have very little accountability at all for their actions many unhappy men too as you would imagine when the female population treats them very badly. Like they do today. It’s going to get worse too. The government makes money on this stuff , and promotes and incentivizes bad behavior in women. I anticipate women becoming more unhappy due to the fact marriage is down 51% in the last decade and violence against them is rising.

JayParris · Answer

Women still have a higher happiness index than men, but they're closing the gap on misery. Competing in career fields has always been a stressful, soul-sucking necessity. And to compound that, you have the balance of family life, business life, personal time, etc. Success in one usually means failure in others, and "there are only so many hours in a day" as the old-timers used to tell me.

I lost my marriage because I was working overtime to provide. But while working 60-80 hours a week, I didn't have time to take care of things at home. Reduce overtime, and we fell behind. Increase overtime and I was neglecting my family. So I started sleeping less, and my motivation to do any of it tanked. What do you do?

bamesjond0069 · Answer

Well an acquaintance of mine, a 28 year old self described feminist told me she's ready to settle down and marry and have a child however cannot find a man that both meets her requirements and is willing to do so. She has had mixed career success as in she isn't in a low position yet doesn't make enough to do anything out of the ordinary or have significant savings.

I told her she spent all her youth fighting the patriarchy ie right for women to be respected at work, not be judged for being single and unmarried... yet now she's wondering where the patriarchy is when she wants it.

To me its as simple as that. Women got what they asked for and generally have buyers remorse. And everyone has experienced that before and thats a really shitty feeling to have.

MCheetah · Answer

Nah. Women just aren't as grateful and satisfied as men tend to be. It's impossible to keep a (left-leaning) woman happy. You can give a woman literally EVERYTHING and she'll be happy for a week before having the uncanny ability to find someone new to complain about.

And I love women; I'm just being real.

ohshee · Answer

How about this there are some people that are unhappy more than other people we might be a Woman They Might Be A Man who knows I'm not going to put them in a box and say there's more women or more men it's each individual they can do anything they want they're grown adults if they can't figure out how to get out of it well then they don't know that the only person that can make you happy or sad is yourself and it comes from within so dig deep look deep feel deep understand deep get out of it

VanillaSalt · Answer

Men have had centuries to be comfortable in this position now that women are just stepping into it their not ready. They think they know what they want but the consequences that come with it they can’t comprehend because who can predict human behavior? Even if they did I think they would do it anyway.

NaultD · Answer

That's been a thing for like ever honestly. Even down to higher suicide attempts. Males are more successful at suicide but that's more about male methods. Females historically had limited agency in life thus more depressed.

If you can't act as your own agent in life of course anyone would be depressed. This is the philosophy of Jean Paul's "Hell is Other People."

genericname85 · Answer

Weil obviously, cause we spent probably a decade now, telling women, that being what women want to be naturally, is not deemed successful by society anymore. Women now have a career and women who are house wifes, caring for their children is frowned upon. Instead they are supposed to have a high wage job, putting their child in some day care facility.

SHB84 · Answer

I think so. Us as men are content not playing weird mind games when it comes to dating, we think with logic and try not to base every decision and reaction with emotion. We aren't constantly woman bashing, nor do we have an undeserved sense of entitlement.

Apulu_3 · Answer

Again. Third time saying today. Gender has nothing to do here.

MuddyMole · Answer

All of these studies are going to be based on self-reported happiness scores, so all they show is that women are more likely to complain about how unhappy they are - which I think is pretty damn obvious.

Salma_Nawar15 · Answer

I think, as a female, since we tend to overthink simple stuff, we see things that are kind of hard to see. So although we appear unhappy, we really aren't. We just need a listener (I got most of this info from a book called Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus)

Heartache0405 · Answer

They make themselves unhappy and blame men for their problems when they should be blaming themselves. Only you can make yourself happy. It’s not another individual’s job to do so. If you don’t agree you’re just an asshole 🤷🏻‍♂️

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

Lol yeah being surrounded by overly masculine energy, being ignored, told we are wrong constantly, and being fearful for our lives will do that to someone.

HighValue · Answer

Because less men are marrying them to let them steal the man's assets. Plus now more women work and get to deal with some of the stress that men have been dealing with for generations.

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Well I've learned to judge people individually and through such meticulous work have found men to be more unhappy. Granted women usually say how happy they are a ridiculous amount inbetween their crazy schedules and drama with other women..

Hopelessromeo33 · Answer

modern women in America are more unhappy than men. they have forgotten why their families worked and want to try to prove they can be just like or better then the men when thats what is making them miserable.

BCRanger10 · Answer

If it's true, which I don't think there's much reason to doubt that there is, it's not surprising.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

HOW can they POSSIBLY be unhappy? They've got HALF the money and ALL the pussy!! What else could they POSSIBLY want?

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