Women's brains are like spaghetti and men's brains are like waffles. You've probably heard that before. Another similar example that a great marriage conference speaker (Mark Gungor) uses is that in men's brains, everything is categorized into neat boxes that don't touch. In women's brains, there is a great ball of wires and all the wires are connected to each other.
The other day I told my husband I was trying to separate my wires into different boxes and failing miserably! In reference to Mark Gungor, again, he says that of all the boxes in men's brains there is one favorite...the "nothing" box. There is nothing in there and men love to go to that box. This is in no way derogatory towards men, for to quote a good girlfriend of mine, "I wish I could think of nothing for one day." Yes. We crazy emotional feminine creatures do in fact wish at times that all of our thoughts weren't connected to each other and that they would please quit spinning around our head like a clothes dryer!
It is true that most of the time it is women who buy the marriage books, drag their husbands to the marriage conferences and continually need to analyze their marriage relationship. In part, that is because we are very relational and ...our emotion wire is very much intertwined with our relationship wire, which is twisted together with our mood wire, and so forth. But also, in my opinion, because we are the ones with the crazy roller coaster hormonal emotions! Our husbands may be cool as a cucumber drinking a lemonade on a sunny summer day while we are bouncing off the walls with emotions and mood swings and drama and "do you love me?" and "am I pretty?".
My husband and I have learned to turn our differences in character and personality into things we can laugh about and have fun with. But even as I poke fun at us "crazy" women, I believe God made us in a very delicate and deep sort of way for a great purpose...much greater than we can imagine! Oftentimes though, there's a whole lot of character building that He needs to do in us, meanwhile those closest to us get to experience the process of our growing and stretching which is not always fun.
The point of this whole thing is really to simply make the statement that GOD BLESSED ME WITH AN INCREDIBLY SWEET & PATIENT HUSBAND!
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