Essay: The Best Advice I Ever Got About Women

POV: You’re sitting on the couch. Your girlfriend comes in, you’re sitting there, minding your own business. She looks at you.

 ‘You suck!’ she says. Ok, maybe that’s a little bit strong. But she’s not pleased. She looks at you like you just farted - you think, what is it? What did I do? In your head, you run through all of the options. Do I smell? Is the place a mess? Did I forget somebody’s birthday? I was literally doing nothing? And that’s the problem.

Happy Valentine’s day bodiddlys. Here’s the best advice I ever got about women, from the wise and benevolent David Deida, in his book ‘The Way of The Superior Man.’ 

“You want to know what triggered her bad mood so you can fix the situation. Because you love her, you begin asking her questions to get to the root of the problem. You are under the illusion that when you find the cause of her affliction, then the cure will easily follow. But it doesn’t work that way...The amazing thing is 90 % of women’s emotional problems stem from feeli…