God only know that we can all drive each other mad on the topic of the opposite sex. I know that women have driven me over the edge some times, be it in my mind or in a car. However, in my years of observing, I have noticed that the massive amount of arguments and headache in all men and women relationships come out of what I feel are a few are basic misunderstanding about the genders.

1. Men are simple, Women are not: I can’t recall all the times I have talked to or watched a lady stress out over something that seems completely unimportant to me. This struck me most when I listen to a girl complain for two hours about her boss getting mad at her during the day. What I liked even less was this was at a dead end job she hated and was thinking about leaving. That being the case, why would she care about what her boss thought?
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   I have noticed that men have a far more common trend of being laid back. Something bad happens they don’t care or notice, unless it is really really bad. When was the last time you heard a semi-normal guy complain about his elbow being too rough? Not saying it doesn’t happen, just saying that I notice girl worrying about small stuff more.

2. Women are smarter, guys are saner: Now, let me explain myself, it comes from point number one. Women have massive brain power. They can keep crazy long schedules and to-do lists all in their head. Men forget what month it is. But that also lets men not let things get to them so much. One can’t worry about what they can’t even remember. So when something does come up they have a cleared head to face it with, where most women already have a full docket on their mind.

   Women are far more in touch with their feelings then men: Women are always going to win on the issue of affection. That is why women are mothers. Men simply do not have the inner understand of their own feelings to do something like be a mother. It is women’s greatest strength; unless they let their emotions run their life. That is part of the reason why I think antidepressants sell off the modern drug store self like candy.

3. Men will never be able to feel as deeply as a woman can, not that men can’t feel. It is just not the same. And sometimes women forget that about men. It is not a case that a man doesn’t care, he just may not have such a good understand of his emotions as a women does.

   No man is prince charming, and no woman is the princess in the tower: A common fairy tale that we secretly believe is that our fairy tales are true. Men like to be the knight, brave and strong and able to save the fair lady. But men can’t, no one can save anyone. You can support, you can help, but only the person can change themselves.

4. Women also have fairy tales. They want prince charming. They want someone to be everything they ever saw in the movies and they will dance the night away and everything will always be perfect. Yet it doesn’t work like that. The only man that is going to be prince charming is a man pretending to be because he understands that is what a woman wants.
5. Men are stimulated through their eyes; women are stimulated through their minds: There is a very real reason why women have more to look at than men do. Men like to look. Men are aroused best by images. We like the curves of a woman, even the gay men I have met like the curves of women.

   Women are aroused through their own fantasies. Romance novels are made mostly to be read by women, because women respond through the imagination more then men. That is why men seduce mostly through words and women mostly seduce through those wonderful curves.

With these things in mind you can better predict and understand why we do the crazy things we do.