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George Lough:
A major difference between men and women is that men appear to be more interested in problem solving; the kinds of problems that occur at work for example, that they can use logic to solve.

George Lough, co-author of the book What Men Are Like...

Even when boys are playing games - if an argument breaks out in a group of boys they will try to quickly resolve it to go on with the game. If someone's feelings are hurt that's not as important as continuing the game. But with girls playing games, however, the relationships are much more important. If a bad feeling gets evoked for some reason, girls are more likely to just stop the game all together and even quit if they can't resolve the personal issue.

And this difference carries on into adult life.

So that later on in life a man feels like he needs to spend most of his time and energy at his work and he expects the relationship sort of to take care of itself. You know when a man comes home from work he's sort of feels like well he's done his thing, he's done the job and that proves that he loves his family. After all if it weren't for them he wouldn't be out there doing it. And so he feels that's it, I don't have to talk about it, I don't have to talk about my feelings for you or get into these emotional issues. And that's an area where men really need to be trained by women to become more conscious of the importance of sharing feelings and working on the relationship.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.