Cornholio said:
on a side note - talked with a friend who went thry a divorce a year ago. He said the one thing that really made him feel worthless was that she never commented on his body..
He went from being basically out of shape to maintaining a 6% bf level year-round and has abs I would kill for......yet she never commented on his trasnformation..
This just represents one of the many differences between men and women.
Men tend to sum up women by how they look, and by how they will make them look because of it and how much it's gonna cost them to keep them happy and keep them looking that way.
Women tend to sum up men by how reliable there are for them and how much they can support them both emotionally and monetarily.
All relationships vary and it would be silly to say that all relationship are like the above stated but if you had to break it down to cover a vast amount of people that would be it. (IMHO)
The man's money and how and whom it is spent on is more important him than the woman's money. While the woman's emotional needs and said needs being met are more important than the man's emotions or emotional needs.
Again - this does not represent all people it only represents the preconceived stereotypes of males and females.
That said, I'm under the belief that what is high maintenance to a man regarding a woman is how much he has to spend on her and what is high maintenance to a woman is how much hand holding and ego stroking she has to sacrifice from herself to give to him.
So I guess men and women are inherently selfish, just in different ways.