You have said that women have told you that you are a good listener and I have absolutely no reason to doubt that this is the case. So I commend you for being a rarity.I tend to think that most men listen but sometimes fail to actually hear the subtlties and nuances that are being both verbally and physically offered in spoken communication.

You only offer two assumptions. The third assumption is that you are a good listener and be extrapolation a truthful man.

This, to me, is called learning and growing.

I read, I analyze in the light of my own nutty nonsense and neuroses and I form an opinion. Now whether that conclusion( or opinion) is the socially correct one or not, it is mine to own until such time as I reexamine the issue based on better or more reliable data.

Men tend to use assertive and straight forward language and it is their language of speech is an action to get things done whereas women tend to use language as a more nuanced and subtle form geared towards rapport and relationship building and thereby achieving some form of consensus, perhaps.

This is because you are a guy and want to and have been raised to extend something called grace and patience, to take turns at kicking the ball. It is also an issue of central focus, whereby men tend to focus at a differnt neuronal reading level. Women who have different neuronal readings and are arguably less rigidly compartmentalised, are therefore more enabled to multi task.

I am not sure that he has anything worth saying that is worth listening to.

Allan Pease,co author of "Why men need sex and women need love" conducted a series of EEG's, PET scans and other tests to demonstrate that neuronal activity in many parts of the brain was at a very low level when a man was actually speaking and that there was totally dissimilar neuronal activity when a woman was speaking forcing him to conclude that there are considerable differences, (aside from the genitalia, as one person pointed out,) in actual brain activity during periods of speech and listening between men and women.

Thank you for your response, you certainly missed the point. A thesis was presented and instead of responding with any antithesis you decide that it is far better to just be insulting and derogatory not to the thesis itself, but to the person offering the thesis.
Actually as a fairly new guy to this site I have noticed, as a point of generalisation, that this is done on a fairly regular basis by a few people who really should know better. First you welcome someone ...then you wait for a suitable opportunity to demonstrate your unwillingness to examine the thesis/thread and instead spit out any nonsense you decide upon aimed at the writer.

look at a mans' conversation. Generally men allow other men to have their say in the conversation, they take it in turns to speak. A generalisation I know but observe anyway. Now look at a conversation with women and notice that several may be talking at the same time and somehow being aware of all the conversations going on at the same time.

Men switch off when it comes to both talking and listening, women can both talk and listen at the same time. Anyone with comments??

I wonder if an absolute price and wages freeze may not be the most expedient. If wages and prices are frozen there may be a short term economic drain due to lack of investment. However. All empires, the Roman, the British, the French, the Russian, the American etc. have been lessening in terms of longevity throughout the centuries. But all have imploded economically. All of these empires share a common trait. And that is the trait of social and econimic complacency. The, I am all right Jack scenario, by the economicly powerful. The end result has always been a series of military defeats by idealistic regimes. Until the United States society regains a more individualistic and humanistic approach to its citizens then I very much fear that the Pax Americana too will implode. The citizens may find some solace in nationalism but nationalism is a matter of free will and cannot be imposed upon the people. Only severe imposition of commonwealth values will force the population to reconsider their lifestyles.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say, a foolish man speaks because he has to say something.
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The dark side has candy. Come to the dark side.

Such a softie,

Such a softie,

Somehow I cannot see her being very impressed.

You can hide love away,you can reject love. You can even pretend it does not exist, yet on the most elemental and atomic level of man's being love will live for you and my blessing to you is that it finds you for you to embrace it.

I would sail the seven seas, I would walk the wild lanes of Ireland to the sands of the Silk Road. I would fight the four winds and the pirates of the Barbery Coast. I would weep with the tears of heaven and cry the halo round the moon. I would give up my gypsy ways and plant roses in our garden that would greet her as she walked by.
I would fight the fight stronger and sleep the sleep stronger knowing that my love all of you.

Good evening once again.
I do not mean to belabour a point but both regression therapy and transcendantal meditation have been mentioned and I really do not know anything about either concept. How by using either does one begin to recognise what one may have been at a different point in time?