Men are from Mars...

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You know how the saying goes. "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus" (funny enough but I actually have this book, surprise surprise). But it's true; men and women really are different species. They think differently, are able to compartmentalize and focus on one task at a time, and certainly aren't as open with their feelings as us ladies are. Despite knowing all of this, I still don't get guys. When one pisses me off, I never stop to think "oh maybe this is just in his y-chromosomed nature?" In all fairness though, I can understand how they don't get girls either (I'll admit that we really can be cray sometimes and very complicated almost all the time). So besides reading books on how to understand the opposite sex, what does one do?

I'll tell you what I do: read men's magazines. More specifically, when I have nothing better to do I go on the websites for these magazines (Men's Health, Ask men, Coed, these last two may or may not be actual magazines but are totally guy centric). Let me just say, it's absolutely fascinating. Guys think about things just as much as girls do, they just spin the topics differently; instead of a boot camp bikini blast there's an article on building muscle and protein powder, and instead of how to please him, it's a feature on how to please her.

It's funny, but somewhere along the way I actually forgot that guys have feelings (maybe because they've done such a good job at crushing mine?). I remember asking my guy friends, why would any guy actually feel motivated to want a relationship/is that even possible for one to really want to be tied down? I still wonder that sometimes. But newsflash: they actually do have feelings, and deep down they're just as interested in how to impress someone as any girl is. Guys just aren't as open about it as we are...and maybe that's why we can't live with 'em, can't live without them.