Fellas, have some of you noticed that when you are in an argument with your girl, she has that weird gleam in her eye? Maybe, after the argument, there seems to be an odd air of satisfaction about her and perhaps even seems more affectionate? I’ve had a few (now ex) girlfriends who seemed to enjoy starting fights with me! According to Nancy Shute’s article “Upset Men and the Happy Women Who Love Them”:
” ‘The women tend to want to engage around conflict,’ she told Shots. ‘They’re deriving more satisfaction when they see that their partner is upset.”
Evidently we women see a man’s willingness to share negative feelings as a sign that he’s invested in the relationship.”
I see that behavior that is completely unacceptable in a relationship. There is no way to sugar coat it or say it nicely; I hate when women do that. Do all women do it? No, of course not. Do enough women do it to where it’s noticeable and needs to be addressed? I certainly think so, and I think Shute does too if she wrote the article in the first place. There is a lot of things that women do in relationships that need to be talked about and dealt with; this need for negativity in a relationship being one of them. Why is this happening and why are some women doing this? ...read more at the blog!