The Man, Woman Relationship: God's Joke?

Are Heterosexual Relationships Really Supposed to Work

Michael Bridges
If you really look at the relationships between men and women, I think you have to ask yourself, "Is this a joke"? Sure this kind of relationship is necessary in order to procreate so that mankind can go on, but look at how different men and women are. I'm not talking about our physical and biological differences. I mean our emotional and psychological differences. The things that are supposed to keep us together, but actually keep us frustrated with each other.

Women for the most part are emotional and feel things more deeply than men. They are caring, comforting, and nurturing people who seem to always see things the way they what them to be. Men on the other hand are strict, reasoning, realistic people who for the most part abide by a strict adherence to the rules of logic. These things clash and there for can cause problems. While a woman maybe looking for emotional comfort and understanding to a problem, the man is looking for a logical solution to it, which may make him, seem uncaring of how the woman is feeling in the woman's eyes. The reality is the man wants to solve the problem thinking that will make the woman feel better.

Looking at serious conversations between men and women, you will usually find that the woman will approach the topic from an emotional point of view, speaking more on how they feel about the subject or how the subject makes them feel. A man will usually come from a logical point of view, showing the logic and the reasoning of the subject. This can cause an impasse, which can make the conversation irresolvable. Speaking from a man's point of view, it is very frustrating to be in a conversation with someone and trying to reason with them through logic and they keep talking about how they are feeling. I'm sure it's also frustrating for women trying to invoke an emotional response from a man and getting nothing but facts.

I think emotions have a way of clouding your view of things. They make you see things the way you feel they are and not how they really are. Emotions can even cancel out logic. Using myself as an example, I consider myself an ultra logical person, yet when I get angry, which is an emotion, all of my logic seems to leave and I don't care about anything or what happens. That's not logical.

The bottom line is, yes, emotions and logic clash. They can even cancel each other out. But the truth is you need them both. This world would crash and burn without either one of these. So back to the question, is the man, woman relationships really suppose work? Although it maybe frustrating some times I would have to yes. Was the man, woman relationships a joke played by God? Maybe so, but the bottom line is we do need each other.

Published by Michael Bridges

I basically consider myself an artist, but I also write short stories, play music and write songs. I do surreal paintings and I also paint comic book supperheroes.  View profile

  • Women for the most part are emotional and feel things more deeply than men.
  • A man will usually come from a logical point of view
  • I think emotions have a way of clouding your view of things.

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