The first step is understanding men—and each other
I’ll cover more solutions in Part 2 of this series, but here’s the starting point:
The solutions to this are both very simple and very complex. The complex solution will be somehow generating a sea change in our culture that acknowledges that there are legitimate, valid differences between how men and women often think and feel. And many of these can help us understand each other better.
But the simple solution comes one person, one interaction at a time—working to understand the men or women in your life, to honor how they are similar or different from you. To see their different insecurities, needs, ways of processing, and predispositions.
More on that next time. But that will be the start for that sea change.
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Shaunti Feldhahn loves sharing eye-opening information that helps people thrive in life and relationships. She herself started out with a Harvard graduate degree and Wall Street credentials but no clue about life. After an unexpected shift into relationship research for average people like her, she now is a popular speaker and author of best-selling books about men, women and relationships. (Including For Women Only, For Men Only, and the groundbreaking The Good News About Marriage).
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