Friday, February 25, 2011

Too inquisitive?

Do you have anyone in your life who is too inquisitive?  I suppose it is possible to ask too many questions.  I seems that questions which may have an apparent answer to Travis are those that cause the most eye-rolling, disgruntled facial expressions, along with the phrase "Come on, hun!"  This morning I asked 3 questions in succession as I watched him break open one of the eggs our baby chicks were supposed to have hatched out of.  That was not a good idea, however; I hadn't put much thought into it at the time.   It didn't ruffle his feathers too awfully much, it was just his insensitive response that made ME angry.  It doesn't seem to have quite have hit him yet that men and women do not take direct thoughts the same, mostly when they sound something like "why are you always bombarding me with 30 questions when I'm trying to do something!?"  A man's response to that might have been..."well, I wanted to know what you were doing and why"  ...then again, perhaps a man would not have asked so many questions.  I'm really not sure.   My thoughts were "gee, you're not trying to do brain surgery, you were breaking a hole in the shell of a dead bird."  A difference in personalities I suppose.   It's best not to take anything a man says 'personally.'  Why?  This is because most men do not take anything personally, and do not intend that the content of their communication will be taken personally...their simply spewing out the contents of what is momentarily on their mind.  That is why they find it so frustrating to try and be sensitive to your 'needs' and 'feelings.' That is, unless they happen to more on the feminine side of the feminine-masculinity bell curve.  Which is great for sensitivity, but not so much for other things you might expect out of your man.  It's a no-win situation no matter where the man falls on the curve. They will still have problems meeting all the requirements of the complex, tortured mind of the woman.  Sometimes I wish I had been born a male, but then I think given that sort of man-wiring, trying to please a woman may be a worse torture.  I'm just not sure.

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