We all know that guys are different to us, so here's a few tips to help survive the smaller frustrations in life.
The Toilet Seat
When he stays at your place, please tell Mr. Fabulous For Now, the rule is, he puts the seat back down. No girl likes to dunk her lala in cold toilet water at 3am. When you're staying at his place, he gets the home court advantage. Put the seat up after using his loo. If his toilet paper resembles yesterday's newspaper (i.e. very rough on your hoo-haa) or infact IT IS yesterday's newspaper ... speak up. If he wants a re-visit, then the softer variety has to shipped in.
The Television
When the television goes on, guys go into a meditative state; it's impenetrable. Here's why: guys do one thing
at a time. When they make love, they make love. They don't think about work, having dinner, or whether they
have picked up the mail, the way we might. Let him watch the show uninterrupted, and if you really, really
need his attention, turn off the TV or take off your clothes or both.
Public Displays Of Affection
Girls are much more comfortable with public displays of affection than guys. Guys prefer to keep their more
soft sides for private places such as the couch, the bedroom or the kitchen floor. Explain to your special
someone that a girl's thirst for affection, publicly or privately can almost be unquenchenable. Yes, it's often our insecurities taking over or we just want to show off our new hot boyfriend to the world, whatever the reason, we simply like kissing and cuddling in public. However, try and reach a happy compromise - i.e. ease up on the snuggling in the express lane at the supermarket - guys hate that.
Cars
Despite our best efforts, most women just can't get all that excited about cars. But guys are NEVER going to be excited about Italian handbags. So that makes us even.
Women view being alone in their boyfriend's car as couples time. Bad news girls..guys view it from a more practical perspective...a way of getting things done, a tool for getting from A to B or just chill out space to listen to their new CD.
Girls, accept that when your BF is hopelessly lost, he's never going to suck in his pride, wind down the window and ask for directions. It just ain't going to happen! Guys hate not being seen as competent and powerful. Pamper his ego by saying encouraging words such as "I know you'll get us there honey". It's usually more effective than pointing out the missing gene.
Cave Time
When your significant other says I need some "guy time" or "I need space" these are two very different meanings. Look for clues but don't cling too tightly. Let him off the leash a little. His desire to run away might disappear. If it doesn't, you were never going to keep him in the first place. Leave him for the dog catcher.
Sex
Women prefer thirty to forty minutes of foreplay (as any cookbook will tell you, it's best to preheat the oven before you put in the roast), while men are content with thirty to forty seconds (which is enough time to put a TV dinner in the microwave). Please tell your significant other that his suggestion that you go back to his place, though charming, does not count as foreplay.
X/Y Chromosome
It turns out that the most discernible variation between the biology of men and women lies in that tiny little X Chromosome/Y Chromosome thing, which, as it turns out, is not such a tiny little thing at all. Study after study reveals substantial differences in perceptions, attitudes, priorities, communication styles, handwriting, hairstyles and furniture selection. Most women are concerned with relationships, people, diet, clothing and physical appearance. Most men are concerned with sex, sports, work, money, cars, news, politics, did I mention sex and the mechanics of things.
Emotions
We not only see things completely differently to men, we feel things differently too. Women are in touch with a much wider range of feelings than men, and those feelings are much more intense. A man's emotional checklist is pretty basis:
1. Am I hungry?
2. Am I sleepy?
3. Am I horny? If he's content in all three areas, he's pretty much okay. A woman's emotional checklist reads more like a Russian novel. It's long, complicated, and confusing and you spend a lot of time trying to keep the characters straight.
Telephone Talk
Men will never use the phone the way girl's do. Once they've told you what time they want to pick you up and where you are having dinner, they are ready to hang up. The only time you will get your boyfriend to have long intimate phone conversations with you is before he is your boyfriend.
Money and Success
If your boyfriend starts pointing out cute girls, you could ask him if he'd like you to start pointing out guys who are more successful than he is. Money is for men, what beauty is for a woman: power and status. The pressure women feel to be young, gorgeous and thin is crushing. Men are operating under the same pressure, except it's pressure to have money and be successful.
