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ā There is a myth that people fall in love at first sight, and their love is eternal. However, this isnāt how anyone would build a house, make a career or recover from an illness.
I think itās the woman who makes the relationship. Do you know why I donāt give consultations to guys? Because, as a rule, men only want me to prove that women are wrong. Thatās all they expect from a psychologist. I think that men just react to women. They donāt react in the same way to a psychologist. The only reason why I work with women is because I passionately believe that when the woman changes, the manās relationship with her also changes.
In this article youāll find the seven commonest errors which Iāve had to deal with.
1. You lecture too much
The main mistake in relationships is too many discussions initiated by the woman. I donāt mean idle chatter. I mean when, instead of explaining why sheās feeling down, she says āIāll tell you how to do it! I know! You havenāt a clue, you just...ā and she starts lecturing. Letās say itās in the car when he canāt get away; all through the journey she drives him crazy about some little thing that isnāt important. Then they get home, eat, go to bed, have *** and in the morning the whole cycle starts all over again.
2. Youāre thrown from one extreme to another
Women make another mistake. They are always swinging from the extreme of being āalways availableā to being āabsolutely unavailableā.
There are two points to note here:
When a woman learns to understand her own feelings, she learns what calm joy is, and she learns how to find ways to reach this state.
Women wait for a man to come along, do something, and make things right. Things wonāt get right. Thatās because being loved is a basic need. We can only realize basic needs independently. If a woman canāt fulfil her basic needs independently, her unhappiness will only grow.
This will happen even though it would seem that sheās doing the right thing, and that the man is behaving like they do in magazines. She wonāt feel anything. This will lead to the end of the relationship.
3. You whƤƧk the tiger with a slipper
Women often try to bring to menās attention the fact that they havenāt lived up to their expectations. They keep making assertions like āYouāre lazy!ā āWhen will it end?ā āYou never make money.ā āWhen will you make a decision? Taking this position and going on at him like this will make him into a ācatā who will never want to go in direction youāre trying to drive him. Thereās an allegory which illustrates this; letās take a tiger and whƤƧk him with a slipper every day. We tell him that he isnāt strong and he isnāt a tiger. How will this tiger behave?
I suggest women use phrases like āDo you know how sad I feel?ā or āIām very upset because when I explained to you how important this is to me, I hoped youād understandā. By doing this, the woman shares responsibility with the man for her condition. Thatās very important. This is because women expect responsibility. Heās a comfort-loving creature who doesnāt really like personal responsibility, and itās much easier for a member of the āstronger ***ā to make a woman feel comfortable now than to take responsibility for her unhappiness later on.
4. You donāt recognize what happiness is
Iāve been working in this field for 15 years, and for a long time I didnāt understand why girls with completely different status, ages, experiences and upbringing make exactly the same mistakes. What did I understand? That parents have a huge responsibility. They should give their daughters the experience of happiness so that later on they can identify themselves in society. No-one taught me how to feel happy. So when a girl starts out in life, she doesnāt know what being happy really means. She knows fragments of this feeling from when she was awarded for something; good marks at school, good behaviour and so on. So she starts out in life not knowing what happiness is and she meets a man who says āIām happinessā, so she takes him home. Two or three years pass and she doesnāt feel this happiness.
The main task of parents is to convey to their children what happiness is. So if a woman nurtures and cultivates in herself a feeling of calm joy, she is killing two birds with one stone.
5. You donāt bring up your children to show affection
I have an acquaintance with a 3-year-old daughter. When she comes up to him, she shows her affection towards him straight away. This girlās behaviour is largely dictated by nature.If a grown woman always behaved in the same way then a man would have no chance of remaining indifferent to her. But what happens to this behaviour as we get older? Why is it that when a girl begins a new relationship, so much time has to pass before she shows any signs of attachment? When she was a child, she did everything naturally. Why does she need to learn this behaviour all over again?
This is because of wariness. The experience of previous relationships. When a girl has been deceived three times, she starts to think āMaybe he doesnāt want this? Maybe heāll push me away?ā
When I hold him tight, and say sweet words to him, he canāt walk away without looking and feeling bad. Itās the same with our children. The first thing to keep in mind is how important it is to accept their feelings. If your daughter is crying, you mustnāt tell her sheās crying over something silly. You have to tell her that you would also have cried in her place. You need to sympathize. One way to do this is to let children know that nothing is wrong with them. You need to say āWhatever happens, Iām here for youā. You also have to hold back from lecturing them.
Very many people say āWhatever happens, Iām here for you, but listen, when I was your age...ā and then it starts...
6. You donāt let him speak
Men should learn how to speak. When they donāt talk, women feel unwanted. The problem is that men make their plans alone and donāt discuss them with women. If he says āIām going to work today so that in three years we can buy a houseā then she will happily support him. In a manās eyes, if he lives with her and comes home and eats her soup, that means he loves her. But women donāt understand this. Women ask āWhat am I to make of him hardly ever looking at me, coming home late and sleeping in a different room? When I ask men about this, they answer āIām with her, arenāt I? Everythingās okay! You need to talk to women. You have to say āIām tired. Could you cook me such and such?ā This will make her happy.
How can you make a man understand that he needs to talk to you?
The thing is that women see details. That is, they build a general picture of whatās happening based on fragments. Men usually only see the big picture. When a woman does something and then asks a man āhowās that?ā an explosion goes off in his head. He thinks that if he doesnāt say the right thing heāll get into an argument. I know a good game. When your man asks you to do something, letās say he asks where his shirt is or he asks you to make some tea, tell him the following ātell me three little words that mean so much to me, and Iāll tell you where your shirt isā, or ā tell me five sweet little words and Iāll make you the best tea I the worldā. You really do need to take some time to teach your man to talk to you like this. After a while heāll start to do it of his own accord.
7. You donāt recognize your own beauty
Why does a woman spend hours in front of the mirror before she goes out, making herself look that little bit more beautiful for strangers in the street, when she canāt find the time to make herself look beautiful for her man at home? This happens because women worry about public opinion. Her man is already at her side. She puts a much greater value on the remarks of other people telling her husband that he has a beautiful wife than on praise from her own husband.
This isnāt a very healthy attitude, and it should be rooted out. I think that being beautiful is womenās work to the end of their days. It doesnāt matter how old she is. It doesnāt matter what her job is. Thereās no excuse for letting yourself go.
Simple techniques for being happy:
ā There is a myth that people fall in love at first sight, and their love is eternal. However, this isnāt how anyone would build a house, make a career or recover from an illness.
I think itās the woman who makes the relationship. Do you know why I donāt give consultations to guys? Because, as a rule, men only want me to prove that women are wrong. Thatās all they expect from a psychologist. I think that men just react to women. They donāt react in the same way to a psychologist. The only reason why I work with women is because I passionately believe that when the woman changes, the manās relationship with her also changes.
In this article youāll find the seven commonest errors which Iāve had to deal with.
1. You lecture too much
The main mistake in relationships is too many discussions initiated by the woman. I donāt mean idle chatter. I mean when, instead of explaining why sheās feeling down, she says āIāll tell you how to do it! I know! You havenāt a clue, you just...ā and she starts lecturing. Letās say itās in the car when he canāt get away; all through the journey she drives him crazy about some little thing that isnāt important. Then they get home, eat, go to bed, have *** and in the morning the whole cycle starts all over again.
2. Youāre thrown from one extreme to another
Women make another mistake. They are always swinging from the extreme of being āalways availableā to being āabsolutely unavailableā.
There are two points to note here:
- When a woman is always available to her partner for intimacy, no matter how he behaves, she loses value both in her own eyes and in those of her partner.
- When a woman acts as a tough leader or āMummyā in the family, she loses her sexual attractiveness. Thatās because in a manās head, āMummyā and ā***ā are quite different things. He loves āMummyā, but heāll have to find another woman for ***.
When a woman learns to understand her own feelings, she learns what calm joy is, and she learns how to find ways to reach this state.
Women wait for a man to come along, do something, and make things right. Things wonāt get right. Thatās because being loved is a basic need. We can only realize basic needs independently. If a woman canāt fulfil her basic needs independently, her unhappiness will only grow.
This will happen even though it would seem that sheās doing the right thing, and that the man is behaving like they do in magazines. She wonāt feel anything. This will lead to the end of the relationship.
3. You whƤƧk the tiger with a slipper
Women often try to bring to menās attention the fact that they havenāt lived up to their expectations. They keep making assertions like āYouāre lazy!ā āWhen will it end?ā āYou never make money.ā āWhen will you make a decision? Taking this position and going on at him like this will make him into a ācatā who will never want to go in direction youāre trying to drive him. Thereās an allegory which illustrates this; letās take a tiger and whƤƧk him with a slipper every day. We tell him that he isnāt strong and he isnāt a tiger. How will this tiger behave?
I suggest women use phrases like āDo you know how sad I feel?ā or āIām very upset because when I explained to you how important this is to me, I hoped youād understandā. By doing this, the woman shares responsibility with the man for her condition. Thatās very important. This is because women expect responsibility. Heās a comfort-loving creature who doesnāt really like personal responsibility, and itās much easier for a member of the āstronger ***ā to make a woman feel comfortable now than to take responsibility for her unhappiness later on.
4. You donāt recognize what happiness is
Iāve been working in this field for 15 years, and for a long time I didnāt understand why girls with completely different status, ages, experiences and upbringing make exactly the same mistakes. What did I understand? That parents have a huge responsibility. They should give their daughters the experience of happiness so that later on they can identify themselves in society. No-one taught me how to feel happy. So when a girl starts out in life, she doesnāt know what being happy really means. She knows fragments of this feeling from when she was awarded for something; good marks at school, good behaviour and so on. So she starts out in life not knowing what happiness is and she meets a man who says āIām happinessā, so she takes him home. Two or three years pass and she doesnāt feel this happiness.
The main task of parents is to convey to their children what happiness is. So if a woman nurtures and cultivates in herself a feeling of calm joy, she is killing two birds with one stone.
5. You donāt bring up your children to show affection
I have an acquaintance with a 3-year-old daughter. When she comes up to him, she shows her affection towards him straight away. This girlās behaviour is largely dictated by nature.If a grown woman always behaved in the same way then a man would have no chance of remaining indifferent to her. But what happens to this behaviour as we get older? Why is it that when a girl begins a new relationship, so much time has to pass before she shows any signs of attachment? When she was a child, she did everything naturally. Why does she need to learn this behaviour all over again?
This is because of wariness. The experience of previous relationships. When a girl has been deceived three times, she starts to think āMaybe he doesnāt want this? Maybe heāll push me away?ā
When I hold him tight, and say sweet words to him, he canāt walk away without looking and feeling bad. Itās the same with our children. The first thing to keep in mind is how important it is to accept their feelings. If your daughter is crying, you mustnāt tell her sheās crying over something silly. You have to tell her that you would also have cried in her place. You need to sympathize. One way to do this is to let children know that nothing is wrong with them. You need to say āWhatever happens, Iām here for youā. You also have to hold back from lecturing them.
Very many people say āWhatever happens, Iām here for you, but listen, when I was your age...ā and then it starts...
6. You donāt let him speak
Men should learn how to speak. When they donāt talk, women feel unwanted. The problem is that men make their plans alone and donāt discuss them with women. If he says āIām going to work today so that in three years we can buy a houseā then she will happily support him. In a manās eyes, if he lives with her and comes home and eats her soup, that means he loves her. But women donāt understand this. Women ask āWhat am I to make of him hardly ever looking at me, coming home late and sleeping in a different room? When I ask men about this, they answer āIām with her, arenāt I? Everythingās okay! You need to talk to women. You have to say āIām tired. Could you cook me such and such?ā This will make her happy.
How can you make a man understand that he needs to talk to you?
The thing is that women see details. That is, they build a general picture of whatās happening based on fragments. Men usually only see the big picture. When a woman does something and then asks a man āhowās that?ā an explosion goes off in his head. He thinks that if he doesnāt say the right thing heāll get into an argument. I know a good game. When your man asks you to do something, letās say he asks where his shirt is or he asks you to make some tea, tell him the following ātell me three little words that mean so much to me, and Iāll tell you where your shirt isā, or ā tell me five sweet little words and Iāll make you the best tea I the worldā. You really do need to take some time to teach your man to talk to you like this. After a while heāll start to do it of his own accord.
7. You donāt recognize your own beauty
Why does a woman spend hours in front of the mirror before she goes out, making herself look that little bit more beautiful for strangers in the street, when she canāt find the time to make herself look beautiful for her man at home? This happens because women worry about public opinion. Her man is already at her side. She puts a much greater value on the remarks of other people telling her husband that he has a beautiful wife than on praise from her own husband.
This isnāt a very healthy attitude, and it should be rooted out. I think that being beautiful is womenās work to the end of their days. It doesnāt matter how old she is. It doesnāt matter what her job is. Thereās no excuse for letting yourself go.
Simple techniques for being happy:
- Think āWhat pleasure can I give myself today?ā
- Walk 2 and a half miles (4 km) a day on foot. You shouldnāt think āIāll walk a stretch here, and another stretch later onā. You have to walk this distance in one go.
- Drink water! Wash the depression out of your body.
- Think āI approve of myself!ā as much as possible.
- In short ā do what you like to do in the morning. Then the day has a good start.
- And there one more good piece of advice; do nothing once a week. Nothing at all. Donāt make the bed, eat yoghurt, go to the gym or do anything else. This is a very important procedure.
