I disagree...
usagent said:
My therapist said women think with their feelings and men dont. A women can have a ton of crap happening in their heads all based on feelings. It doesnt make it true but It's real to them and that makes it real and at times painful for us. the therapist had us start every argument with "I feel" and it actually worked. Now to men its BS because we dont like feelings, well some of us do but their gay. Now I cant say it always worked because I'd get mad and say stuff like "I feel like I want to push you down the stairs" and as you might imagine this effected her "feelings" but give it a try. Cant hurt.
...you can't 'think' with your feelings. Women 'think' about what they feel. If they fear something, they think about it and they talk about it. It is a fear, a real thing, a feeling, and they think about it and they talk about. Men try to discount this, poo po them or at least minimalize them. We want fix, not think. Women HATE this.
And men do like feelings; we're based on them. We just don't much think about them. Men do stuff all the time, without giving it much thought, based on our feelings, which we're not thinking about. Hunger. Sex. Beer. Nap. Take something apart. Put something together. We feel it, big time. We just don't think about
why we might want a beer or to #### or to fix or break or about what goes into a feeling.
"So, Marge, why do you want to drink/####/fix/break?"
"Well, I'd like a drink, something fruity, cold, smells nice, with ice, or maybe no ice and have sex once the kids have gone to bed and the laundry is put away and the ceiling fan has been fixed, the squeek distracts me, and then we could paint the foyer a nice taupe or maybe that soft green that so and so has, it looks perfect at their house with their floors, and then we need some sugar from the store tomorrow and I want to clean out my car and..."
So, Ed, why do you want to drink/####/fix/break?'
"Are you out of your ####ing mind? Waddya mean why?"
Men often benefit when we learn to think. To some extent. It wouldn't hurt women to think a bit less once in awhile.
If men start thinking too much we won't have things like washing machines which women never asked for in the first place. If women stop thinking so much, they'll drink too much beer, be knocked up all the time and have spare parts from one end of the house to the other.
It works the way it is, Pretty much.