h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've been reading the book, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus", and I have to say it is very very perceptive. I'm approximately half way through and on every page I find myself thinking that I've seen all the examples and exactly where I have gone wrong in all my relationships in the present and in the past.

As the book explains, it's not men's or women's fault but just a matter of all of us failing to understand the fundamental differences between the two sexes. Too many people think that, when you say that men and women are inherantly different, you are insulting one sex or the other and you are not. To say the sexes are different is not saying that one sex is better than the other. It just means that we think differently, our priorities and needs are different and that conflict results from this misunderstanding of each other. Men express their love to women in ways that women don't understand and vice versa. Women require different signs that they are loved by men and vice versa.

Just knowing the difference does not help, you have to work together and show each other how you love your partner in the way they understand, not how you prefer to have love shown to you.

It is *very* difficult. I find it hard, especially when my girlfriend fails to see how she can make me feel more loved, but I can honestly say that things are starting to be better at home because of what I've learned. Hopefully this progress will continue.