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Having internalized Tomassi, I was writing at lunch. (I Write Books) and I stumbled onto something that I was doing during my 20+ year marriage that really messed me up.
As men we are always looking for a solution to problems or solving something. That’s what we do. It’s our gift.
So when things didn’t go well for me, lack of intimacy, being rationed sex, sometimes going weeks or months without even being touched in a kind way by a spouse, we tend to go into a mode that is an introverted but effective way to handle the problems of life. We make that turn onto a path that has no real direction as we don’t have enough information to even travel that path to solving an issue.
In the end there is failure waiting by the road sign. Looking back, a part of me understood everything. It just wasn’t within my grasp. The brain washing set up a conflict in my head. Society and the world says one thing (feminine imperative used to cover up breeding strategies) but your guts are telling you something else.
Those two opposing ideas or concepts paralyze us. They are in conflict.
Does that make us stop trying to solve it?
Oh hell no. We really are that aggressively tenacious. We absolutely won’t give up. It’s an un-winnable battle.
It all boils down to one thing. The statement I probably needed to really hear.
“You can’t cure a woman of being a woman.”
As men we are always looking for a solution to problems or solving something. That’s what we do. It’s our gift.
So when things didn’t go well for me, lack of intimacy, being rationed sex, sometimes going weeks or months without even being touched in a kind way by a spouse, we tend to go into a mode that is an introverted but effective way to handle the problems of life. We make that turn onto a path that has no real direction as we don’t have enough information to even travel that path to solving an issue.
In the end there is failure waiting by the road sign. Looking back, a part of me understood everything. It just wasn’t within my grasp. The brain washing set up a conflict in my head. Society and the world says one thing (feminine imperative used to cover up breeding strategies) but your guts are telling you something else.
Those two opposing ideas or concepts paralyze us. They are in conflict.
Does that make us stop trying to solve it?
Oh hell no. We really are that aggressively tenacious. We absolutely won’t give up. It’s an un-winnable battle.
It all boils down to one thing. The statement I probably needed to really hear.
“You can’t cure a woman of being a woman.”
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