Women's power to hurt the male ego

[archerships]

A woman often marries a man for his potential. If women married men for who they actually were, there would be far fewer marriages. When a woman loves a man, she says to herself, 'I could improve him. Once we're together, things will be different.'

Since I began my practice in 1977, I've heard this refrain hundreds of times. I try to get it across to the woman that what she sees is what she gets. This is him. If he's drinking every Friday and Saturday night, look forward to a lifetime of weekend alcoholism. He may cut out Friday, but he'll still be a drinker.

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Comments

[istar.livejournal.com]

For a woman to get a man's attention without bruising his jujube doll, she has to show rather than tell.

This man is truly a gentleman and a scholar!

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

The old chestnut is that a woman marries a man expecting to be able to change him, while a man marries a woman expecting her never to change.

[pokarpokarpokar.livejournal.com]

beautiful, intelligent and sensitive women have an incredible ability to hurt me.

which is why i am now resolved to be very careful about who i give the power to hurt me to.

who i give my heart to.

[flw.livejournal.com]

remove "man" and replace with "used car" and all the advice stands. These women are unhappy because they think everything in life is a shopping experience. They are doubtless unhappy with all the other things they buy as well.