Apart From Sex Men And Women Have Nothing In Common

'Why men and women have nothing in common (except sex)'
By NIRPAL DHALIWAL
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=449030&in_page_id=1879

Having an afternoon drink with a friend last Sunday,
we found ourselves sitting beside a trendy twentysomething
couple whose conversation we could overhear all too clearly.

Actually, it was just a monologue by the young woman, who
spelled out each of the banal uninteresting problems and
worries that plagued her life.

All of her mind-numbing anxieties - about work, her
friends, what to buy someone for their birthday - were
articulated in excruciating detail over the next two hours
in a grating, whining voice.

Her companion gazed empathetically into her face from
across the table, listening intently as he stroked her
hand to comfort her. He was paying her the sort of devoted,
patient attention that only a man in desperate want of
sex can manage.

Any other guy would surely have found her blathering
unbearable. From the tension in his jaw and the way his
eyes narrowed as his hand slid ever upwards along her
bare arm, it was obvious there was only one thing on his
mind.

And he was prepared to listen to two hours of her garbage
in the hope that he would get it.

In their idiotic way the couple exemplified a fundamental
truth about men and women.

We exist in two different time zones. Men want to be happy
right now, today, preferably in the company of a beautiful
woman. Tomorrow can wait.

Women, on the other hand, are constantly concerned with
the future, and with their prospects financially,
emotionally and sexually.

While this girl prattled on about her vague hopes and
worries for the future, her boyfriend was anchored by his
carnal desires into the immediate here and now.

They exemplified what I've come to realise over the years:
that men and women have almost nothing in common, other
than the desire for sex and, if they have any children, a
shared concern for their wellbeing. Besides that, we have
very little interest in each other.


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