Hi Mary, I must take exception to some of the things you wrote in response to my husband...
[Mary] As the resident expert on emotions (the token female) I take umbrage at your statement, John. Let's face it, men have only a tangential connection to their emotions. It is not allowed in Western culture. You have only two socially acceptable outlets for masculine emotion, verbal violence or physical violence. That's it. I hate that, but I did not make the rules. [Lu - similarly expert on, at least my own, emotions] John is actually a male who happens to be pretty much in touch with his feminine side (emotions), while remaining masculine (big, burly, bearded). He is neither verbally nor physically violent, if he was, I would have been out of here long ago. I realize that he isn't in the majority in this but, none-the-less... We women tend to go directly to the emotional reaction to a situation, whereas men are more inclined to analyze the situation, and I find Johns' ability to analyze my emotional reaction to be very helpful, and he can often draw me away from my emotional reaction by his level headed reasoning. [Mary} > I challenge you guys to convince me this is not true. Who among you has > not > experienced a long running disagreement with your significant other? > > [Lu] I have no long running disagreements with my significant other (John). One reason we have had a happy 21 year marriage is that we solve our disagreements and move on. We come up with new ones, of course, but they are getting fewer and further between. Long running disagreements would be EXHAUSTING! Lu - the blissfully happy ;-) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
