For as long as I can remember, I’ve always preferred the company of women…
“Relationship Advice for Men” is a series of articles written with the intention of passing along some of what I’ve learned about women over 6 decades. It’s not a bunch of clap-trap emotional feel-good garbage that tells you that it’s healthy to cry, or some similar bullshit.
The relationship advice that I want to pass along here are things that women have told me over the years. Women that were (and, still are) friends. Not lovers or wives or girlfriends. Just friends.
See, at a very young age I realized that women are just more fun to be around than men. They’re prettier than us, they smell better than we do, and, believe it or not, they’re smarter than we are. (I know that you might not agree with me on that last part, but, it is true!)
Please understand…I am not now, nor have I ever been, a “ladies man” (or a “man’s man”, for that matter). When I was growing up (in the middle of the last century) I suppose I had as many “girl friends” as any of the other guys that I knew. I also had quite a few girl “friends”, and that was something my buddies could never understand. They were still in the “Wham! Bam! Thank You, Ma’m!” period of adolescence, and being around a girl without trying to “dip your wick” never entered their mind.
Don’t get me wrong…I enjoyed a turn on the bucking bronco as much as anyone (and still do!), but, I also enjoyed just sitting around and talking with girls. No hustle. No innuendo. Just conversation.
And, I began to notice something. Once they realized that I had no agenda, they started telling me things. Not silly, giggling girl things, but serious things. Things they loved. Things they hated. Things that they wished their boyfriends would do, or stop doing. Things that were important to them!
I was getting relationship advice straight from the horse’s mouth. Of course, all women are a bit different from other women, but, there are some things that they all want. Simple things, for the most part. Things that you can give without effort and without cost. Things that I have used all of my life, and especially throughout my marriage (which has been very long and very happy for me and my Bride).
The “Relationship Advice for Men” articles are going to address some of these things. And, I promise you one thing…if you’ll learn and apply what you find here, not just to wives, lovers, and girlfriends, but to all of the women in your life, you will never again be without female companionship!
