There is one thing in particular I have noticed over the years, and in saying what that observation is readers may at first think 'Well, yeah, that's obvious' and a while ago I would have said the same thing. But no matter how obvious the observation is when someone is trying to understand a person of the opposite sex this thought goes right out the window!
The observation is that not all misunderstandings or differences of opinion have to do with the difference between men and women or the "language barrier" there of. Many of these differences come not from any global stereotype of a particular persons gender but the individuality of that particular person.
The last blog I posted about Bob and Sue are a perfect example of this. The answer to Bobs question about weather or not he should have bought jewelry for his wife had less to do with women as a whole wanting jewelery, even though that is what it boiled down to, and more to do with Sues individual reaction as a penny pincher to an expensive gift.
Hopefully as I share more of the questions I am asked I will be able to clarify which instances have more to do with an individuals personality and which are truly a part of that Ultimate Language Barrier.
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