Who is harder to be understood ? man or woman ?

@tudors (1556)
China
March 12, 2009 12:22am CST
often hear men complain that they don't know what their girls are thinking, how to please her or bla bla bla. meanwhile, i find women keep talking that after a year or even longer , they come to realize that they acturally don't know their men. Is it men purposely hiding their thought from girls ? keep them guess or never want their gilrs to learn too throughly about them ?
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• United States
12 Mar 09
I don't think either one is hard to understand. It is my opinion that it has nothing to do with understanding or not understanding in most cases, but instead, miscommunication. I think that men and women have a hard time communicating with each other and they misunderstand that for not understanding each other. I think that if they were to practice good communication skills with one another they would find that understanding comes with ease. Often times a woman tends to be very emotional. She will either keep her thoughts to herself and expect a man to know how she feels by the mood that she displays or by body language instead of flat out stating how she feels. Other times she will, in a very round about way, tell her man what she is feeling with out bluntly stating it and still expect him to catch on. If a woman wants a man to understand them, she has to be honest about what she's thinking and feeling while explaining it in a calm manner because emotional talks can also lead to misunderstanding, especially when your words can be misconstrued by the emotions that you are portraying. If a woman yells to her man about what she is upset about, a man thinks she is yelling at him, not to him, and vice-versa. Men are often easily misinterpreted by women also. We think that they don't care enough about the way we feel or the things they say because they don't portray the types of emotions that we do. We think that if they come home in a foul mood from work or something happens to put them in a foul mood that they must somehow be mad at us too. That is not the case. This just means that your man needs some space to sort through his feelings. If he says leave me alone, he's not trying to be mean, he just wants you to step away for awhile so he doesn't take his bad mood out on you. Since women are emotional creatures, we take this kind of behavior as a personal attack. Basically the misunderstanding goes both ways for both parties but if men and women were to work on how they communicate with each other, they would be able to live more harmoniously with each other and be better able to understand what each other needs and one.
@tudors (1556)
• China
12 Mar 09
highly agreed ! you seem to understand people very deeply, thanks for the detailed comments. good day.
@bbsr13 (4196)
• India
12 Mar 09
Hello,Tudor! There is a proverb in Indian literature which goes as man's mind can not be read even by God.So I believe a man is harder to be understood than woman while all pages of the mind and heart of a woman is always open before her husband.thanx.thanx.
@tudors (1556)
• China
12 Mar 09
wow ! excellent, shorten to the point, i'll remember this."man's mind can not be read even by God" . thanks.
@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
12 Mar 09
I think that if you're a man, woman would be difficult to understand and vice versa if you're a woman. I don't find them difficult to understand. They both want the same thing. Cheers!!
@forslahiri (1042)
• India
12 Mar 09
Hi, ....so the Moral is.... It could be BOTH. Wearing a Mask or Trying to find the actual face! Both may be difficult to be Understood...s8x ,no Bar... =Lahiri,Kolkata,India.
• India
12 Mar 09
Both are difficult to understand , human Mind is the most complicated thing on earth. But woman are bit easy to understand :))It differs from person to person n also on circumstances. Every one are different.Understanding a person depends on their attitude and character and not on gender:)