She’s a Tesla; You’re a Volkswagen
We went out to dinner with a couple of old friends a while back. Our conversation turn to a volatile subject.
Why are men constantly comparing their present partner to lovers past?
Why is it that for a woman each relationship stands on its own like there were no past loves in their lives?
GF Judy and I went out with a couple of old friends a number of months ago. We’re all a good many years over 60, so you’d think we’d know better, but apparently there are some things that just living the years doesn’t teach some of us.
One of those lessons rarely learned is the self-destructive urge for men to compare his current partner unfavorably with past relationships: ex-wives, girlfriends even partners of the same sex. I believe it’s a chip in the masculine brain that compels the human male to do this act.
Women seem to lack that socially suicidal integrated circuit. To a woman, each relationship stands on its own and each man to whom she is currently relating is, in her mind, the sole recipient of her lifetime love and more desirable than any man in her past.
