the next time you're watching the sun rise, you'll know what's also heading your way.

A lot of women won't compliment a man because they're worried their kindness will be mistaken for sexual interest. Which is a sorry situation for everyone.

Thank you

Well, growing up in a southern country town here in the U.S. A lot of my female friends never wore makeup and were more interested in shooting sports. They were always the most beautiful when they were just doing what they wanted and not focusing on their appearance. We had beauty pagents and stuff, high school girls that were obsessed with looks and all, but I never saw the appeal of that. They looked much better natural with the confidence that they were more than their appearance.

Fix-it-ability, like any other skill, requires training. It's not instinctual.

Most times it's easier just to let it go ..... No drama. Failing that a good fist fight solves most petty squabbles.

I make no secret about this. My greatest dream has always been to have someone to share my life with.

Literally just enjoying existence in the moment

I can confirm. Sometimes you just don't want to get out of bed or do something because you just can't.

Men physically have more muscle cells.

Yup.

Well we're told to "man up" or whatever from such a young age, it's not even not knowing why we feel a certain way. It's not even understanding what we're feeling.

I would think this applies to all people, not just men? 🤷🏼‍♂️

We're like dogs really! We'd like nothing more than to curl up on the sofa, head on your lap, and get stroked while we doze.

And somehow, we are all born with the knowledge of these rules.

Because if they wanted us to know, they'd tell us.

Men tend to talk about common interests rather than their personal lives.

Oh it gets better, I had a close friend in college, didnt even know his name till 6 months after we became friends. I knew his nickname, and we hung out all the time. At the time my mother asked my how could I not know his name, and simply put, it wasnt an important detail of our friendship

I kind of love this. They judge each other based on their character and relationship to each other, instead of sizing them up by external factors.

Because we don't care. Someone is my friend becausevof his/her character traits, not because of the circumstances of their life.

I'm here to see your new belt sander, the new deck you built, or to watch football cause you have an 80" TV we all wish our wives would let us buy, not to talk about how your day at work was. We have women in our lives that ask alllllll of that stuff, we don't need to or want to ask each other that stuff.

It's this so unusual? I've always avoided bothering my closest friends with personal details because I want to have fun when I see them. Compartmentalize your emotional support structure and you can forget your worries during "play time".

Wait, I’m a man and this one shocked me. How could you not know these things about your friends?!

On my walk to the station in the morning I would go past a couple of houses the owners of which would emerge at the same time. They walked to the station together, sat next to each other and, when the train arrived in London, bade each other farewell. They were obviously ex-military (British) and got nicknamed the Colonel and the Major. Suddenly the Major ceased appearing. We thought he was on holiday but as time passed we wondered and asked the Colonel about his friend. "My friend? Oh, we're not friends, just neighbours!" They had lived next door to each other and commuted to work together for FIFTEEN year but were only neighbours. Turned out that the Major had had a leg amputated due to cancer. We never saw him again.

Its very common not to share personal details. Or even important personal matters between guys. You can be close friends through all the hobbies you have in common and thats that :D

We pay attention to who are friends are and not what they do

Because when a man hangs out with a friend he is taking a night off from job kids wife ect.

They respect other's privacy. That's all. Some women do too.

I only learned the age of my best friend from high school of 10+ years... When I was signing his marriage certificate, after officiating his wedding.

This just means they're not really close friends. Our society has trained men that they don't need to have deeper relationships with other men. "Can't be vulnerable! That's not manly!" No, we don't need to know details on every little thing, and might punch you if you try sharing every single detail, but there's no way you can have a close friend and not know anything important about them lol.

When my husband meets someone new, I'll ask him do you know where he worked before, does he have a family is he married? And my husband will reply IDK, he didn't tell me. I'm like you need to ask these things how do you even know him. 🤣

When I return from meeting my friend my wife often asks me questions like "Where is he going for vacation?", "How is his mother?", to which I usually reply "I have no idea" - "So what did you do for 4 hours, did you even talked to each other?" "Well we watched new episode of (insert show name), then we fixed fish tank pump or (insert name of male activity), and then we listened to (insert name of vinyl)"... - "Unbelievable"

One of my friends and I literally have conversations by nodding our heads.

There's a comedian who discusses this phenomenon (or a tiktokker?). Men who had been working together in a very small group, one being trained by a few others. By the end of at least a week, the old employees still didn't even know the new guy's name, nor did he know any of their names, but they were planning outside of work social events with each other already.

That's just not how Bros go

Because we don't meddle in others privacy. That creates drama. Ive got a friend, Ive known since college back in 92. I seriously have no idea what his name is. We have always used nicknames.

100% truth. I asked my husband if his best friend still worked at so-and-so place and he was like, oh I have no idea 😂

I don't know what my best friend's job is. It's something IT. The specifics of what he does are not really relevant to our friendship. He has told me, but it's not a piece of information I have needed to use, so it has not been retained.

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If you like another man as a friend, its just that you like them. Where they work and all that, does not change the fact that you get along

I'm a woman and I'm the same way. I know a few personal things about some people, but I don't like to pry. If someone wants me to know something personal about them, I expect they will tell me.

Why are these details important? They aren't, you know.

Because it would make them seem "gay". A lot of guys are super paranoid about being seen as "gay". Honestly guys, it's fine. You can and should have friends, and know stuff about them.

Actually, most of us chaps who managed to get to being a grown up (at whatever age) want precisely that, some of us are actually an ickle bit romantic too x

So, knowing this, why wouldn't you (a woman) say what you mean? why play games? why want them to read your mind? why getting pissed at them for something you saw in your sleep? And after all, complain about not having proper communication... This is not always the case, but i have seen it over and over between many couples

I have no idea what this person is talking about.

Doesn't everyone do this? 😅

He was being nice. He realises. And it's weird, because the minute you're in a relationship as a guy, it seems women start throwing themselves at you. Whether it's because without the nerves of chatting up you notice signals more, or that being in a relationship makes you more attractive to women, I really have no idea.

We can, more than we're given credit for actually lol (I do acknowledge however that it's not all of us).

The man in the photo is leading the woman up to the edge of an erupting volcano. We do that stuff all the time.

I honestly would love this-