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Anonymous wrote:Now ask an elderly couple.

or a couple married 20 years.

We’ve been married 20 years, I don’t know about all men, but my DH wants public validation even when he screws up royally. Unfortunately that doesn’t fly anymore because of toxic patterns he refuses to acknowledge and work on. I think most people want heartfelt apology and real effort to repairing when there are big disagreements. This is lacking in our marriage hence I started pursuing separation because of toxic verbal abuse and occasional pushing. We all make mistakes sometimes but the way you repair I think is one of the keys to lasting marriage.

Anonymous wrote:This is the “happy man stage.” He’s just started his career and is all potential, and he has just had his first child.

If your husband isn’t googley-eyes at you right after you had his first child, things do not bode well for your marriage.

Mine had googly eyes for 5 years after baby then went downhill.

Anonymous wrote:Now ask an elderly couple.

or a couple married 20 years.

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Anonymous wrote:I think good enough looks, social grace, kindness, planning and executive skills, motherly nature are behind most marriages where men are happy.

I honestly don’t even care that much about looks. Just stay fit and have regular sex.

lol.. I think there are a lot of women on here who are projecting. Men are simple creatures, as stated repeatedly. I like the "ape-like" post. I read that post to DH, and he nodded, "Men are pretty simple".

Ladies, don't make it so complicated.

Thank you, I wrote the ape post. My husband isn’t a full on ape but I know that he’d agree that his needs are pretty simple compared to mine and I love him for that.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband wants me to be well educated about world news.

That’s all? That sets a pretty low bar!

He educates me about it. Everything I know is from him. It works very well in our marriage.

Do you live in an underground bunker? Is this a code/cry for help? Should we call the police to have you rescued?

You really need to read the surrendered wife by Laura Doyle.

Yes I should do that while women are still allowed to read. I'm sure you'll try to ban that soon.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband wants me to be well educated about world news.

That’s all? That sets a pretty low bar!

He educates me about it. Everything I know is from him. It works very well in our marriage.

Do you live in an underground bunker? Is this a code/cry for help? Should we call the police to have you rescued?

You really need to read the surrendered wife by Laura Doyle.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband wants me to be well educated about world news.

That’s all? That sets a pretty low bar!

He educates me about it. Everything I know is from him. It works very well in our marriage.

Do you live in an underground bunker? Is this a code/cry for help? Should we call the police to have you rescued?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband wants me to be well educated about world news.

That’s all? That sets a pretty low bar!

He educates me about it. Everything I know is from him. It works very well in our marriage.

is this a sarcastic post?

I hope so.

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Anonymous wrote:What men want:

In college: get drunk and get laid

Post college: get laid

Marriage: be well fed and get laid

That’s the base from which you need to work with. They are fundamentally very simple, ape like in many ways. Ideally they’d be sitting up in trees like apes peeing down on the apes below them.

Unfortunately many men these days are less groomed and far less handy than your average ape.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband wants me to be well educated about world news.

That’s all? That sets a pretty low bar!

He educates me about it. Everything I know is from him. It works very well in our marriage.

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Anonymous wrote:Thankfully that is NOT what DH likes about me nor does he need to be told how awesome he is all the time. Probably why our marriage is so great

What do other men want?

Who cares

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Anonymous wrote:I think good enough looks, social grace, kindness, planning and executive skills, motherly nature are behind most marriages where men are happy.

I honestly don’t even care that much about looks. Just stay fit and have regular sex.

lol.. I think there are a lot of women on here who are projecting. Men are simple creatures, as stated repeatedly. I like the "ape-like" post. I read that post to DH, and he nodded, "Men are pretty simple".

Ladies, don't make it so complicated.

OP, you got suckered. No man or woman is going to tell you what they are really thinking.

Men want a woman who likes sex, with him, and often. That's almost the most important thing to a man. She could be a kind person, a great mother, but if she's not into sex often, he will be upset.

A woman who says she likes her husband's drive is just euphemism for, "I like that he makes a lot of money."

DH did not care about my maternal instincts since we didn't think about having kids when we got married.

Doesn't everyone want a kind and intelligent mate? I know I do. DH makes ok money. I now make more. I wish he made more, but that would mean he'd be more stressed, and I don't want that for him.

-married 20 years.

Anonymous wrote:Men just wanna be told they’re awesome all the time.

If they take their own plate to the sink, they want to be told good job!

In bed you must pretend they’re the most amazing lay you’ve ever had.

If they tell you something you already know, you have to pretend to be so thankful with all wonder in the world to be impart this knowledge from them.

I mean, it’s pretty simple.

All nonsense. It sounds like you're projecting female behavior onto men.

OP sounds like a ten year old and I'm not kidding. Please go back to mom and dad.

This forum is for people with actual experience and who like data and aren't going to quiz ONE young couple and then extrapolate from that?! Omg. People like you are ruining this forum