Men are from Mars...

Women are from venus... I never read the book... but, I have a friend who did. And lets face it... I've lived through enough relationships to know that men and women just plain function differently when it comes to these things, and to think that we don't is just absurd.

Roomie and I saw the movie The Break-up last night... which rather amusingly was translated as Breaking up American Style by the Latvian theater. This is just great because now all these people will think that this is really the way that it happens in America... that we ALL pull the kind of shenanigans that "Brooke" and "Gary" pulled in the movie. But I digress...

Before I could even thinking about the movie, Vince Vaughn disturbingly much reminded me of the ex HG. Whoah. I didn't really mind, but it was just at first, a little hard to get into the movie.

I liked the movie though. Why did I like it? Because I could follow it. Even if I couldn't exactly relate to the silly things that they did to each other, I could certainly relate the things she was feeling. I probably woulnd't have been as strong as to not take him back at the one point, especially given that what's his name was just there about the art. Although... I have recently been strong enough to get rid of a couple guys when I know it's no longer working... even if it does take a few tries. So maybe I would have. Who knows.

Anyway... the point here is... that the eccentric Ms. NS wanted me to make a new post and this is what is on my mind. I don't think you have to read the book (Mars, Venus) to know and understand that men and women deal with relationships differently.

All this has been actual in my life in the last week as well. The new boy and I just went through a small Mars/Venus type moment. It was about personal space. His need for it, my lack of a need for it. We've dealt with it now, and all is well again in "our" world. Which is good. Cause, even though it's raining every day, and some days the sun isn't even shining anymore... the world still seems a little brighter when he smiles at me.