The Increasing Chaos of Marriage

             Men and women are like the human cell; they're the basic units of life. We can't have one without the other. Thus begins the attempts at relationships between the two, and that's where it all starts. Men and women have numerous differences that initially attract us to one another. Eventually those differences became annoyances and that begins the blame game. Men say that it's the faults of women that make relationships so tough; women are "too needy", "too sensitive", "too emotional" and the list goes on. Women, on the other hand, believe men to lack sensitivity, compassion, emotion, and are unable to understand women's emotions and needs, as well as many more. Relationships become a game of finger-pointing as to who is at fault for it not being the "fairy-tale" image that we all grow up hearing about.
             One of the main reasons men and women struggle in relationships is because of our different communication styles. Men communicate with hard facts, what is actually happening not what they feel is happening. Whereas women experience relationships through what they feel is happening; everything has an emotional connection. Women have a harder time of separating their emotions from the actual event. What a man says to a woman is usually deciphered to mean something totally different from what the actual words that were said. On the other hand, men take the words of women to mean exactly what is said without the emotional perspective that is usually attached to those words. This ineffective communicating between the two causes many problems in the relationship because neither sex knows exactly how to portray what they really mean or feel in words that the opposite sex will truly understand. It's as if men and women speak totally different languages when it comes to relationships. Another big reason for chaos in relationships is the stress coping styles of eac...

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