"It Makes Me Feel Like A Creep": Men Are Revealing The Hardest Thing To Explain To Women, And There's A Lot To Unpack Here
1."Why I don't know what the fuck my best friend is up to in life even after hanging out with him all day."
—Apollo1255
"I chatted with my friend for an hour on the phone. We talk about video games, sports, etc. He's been my friend from high school, and we were best men in each other's weddings.
So, after the call, my wife says, 'What's going on with his family?'
'I don't know.'
'You didn't talk about his family?'
'Look. I'm sure they're fine. If they weren't, he would have told me.'"
—PRMan
2."I was at home when my wife and her friends got home one day from the pub, and they were all giving me funny looks and smirking. I asked what was going on, and they at first refused to tell me. After a little while of prodding, one of them goes, 'I HEARD ALL ABOUT YOUR DICK!' and they all broke into laughter. I was a little taken by surprise but laughed and said something like, 'Oh, yeah? Hopefully all good!' and they laughed, and that was the end of it."
"After they left, I was like, 'What the hell did you tell them?!' and my wife responded by saying how she told her friends about our vigorous romps on our honeymoon in Mexico, apparently in great detail. (We were there for a week and probably had sex about three times a day — we were both pretty sore when we got home). We had an all-inclusive, so we ended up getting day drunk and got pretty physical with each other as you do on a honeymoon.
She was like, 'Whatever, you probably tell your friends all about us when it's just the boys.'
I don't know about you guys, but the EXTENT of what I ever say is usually a raised eyebrow and something like, 'Aww yea booooi.' I have never once described my wife's body to a single one of my friends, nothing in detail about any of my sexual partners (from before my wife), and it blew her mind.
Apparently, women talk in great detail about it; guys usually don't. And they assume we do, and we assume they don't."
—sixesand7s
3."I don't always want to be the one who initiates sex. It makes me feel like a creep."
—NKoreaisbestKorea
"Not even that... but maybe I want to feel wanted and sexy for once."
—MightyEskimoDylan
4."That just because I'm quiet in your presence doesn't mean I'm upset. Just means I'm either tired, don't have anything to say, or I'm thinking about something."
—Deepseadivin
"Or it could also mean you're thinking about nothing."
—DisgruntledAardvark
5."A lot of us aren't great at picking up hints."
—thekarensarecoming
"Hints are dumb anyway. Some women really be out here playing 4D fucking chess when dropping hints. Like bro, I'm just trying to date you, not figure out your fucking puzzle of a 'hint.'"
—exboi
6."When we say we don't care, we really don't care. Yes, we can have an opinion on something, but when we say we don't care, that means our opinion isn't strong enough to sway us either way on something."
—Rollthembones1989
"I learned to say, 'I don't have a preference.' That always seems to come across better."
—PicardBeatsKirk
7."That just because I'm a guy doesn't mean I don't care. I've had women talk to me about guys losing their hair: 'He's a guy, so he doesn't care!' I know a lot of guys who hate being bald or the fact that they are balding, and their hair is thinning, and their hairline is receding! This idea that we don't care or don't care about our looks because we are a guy is ridiculous."
—Racing_in_the_street
"I really hate how much hair I've lost. I mean, DAILY. Multiple times a day."
—Cloaked42m
8."Sometimes an erection just happens. We don't control the thing, it's a physical response that could literally be from nothing."
—slantsalot
"You can have an erection without being aroused, and you can be aroused without having an erection."
—queersatzhaderach
9."Most of us don't get complimented, so if you do give us one, we'll remember it forever."
—Soggy-Tampon
"One time, after getting a haircut and wearing a rather nice new outfit, I was shopping at Target. The five-foot-tall middle-aged Hispanic checker smiled and said, 'You look like a mooooooodel!' I blushed and stuttered out a 'Thank you.'
This was like five years ago. For reference, I do not, nor have I ever, looked like a model."
—stupidrobots
10."Pee at an angle."
—CnCorange
11."Sometimes we could use a hug."
—XmossflowerX
12."Why we bottle our emotions up."
—biggiantporky
"This. My wife and I lost a dog in our second year of marriage. He was sick for a month, and she was crying softly about it on a daily basis. I was extremely sad, but never cried. Then, when they took him away at the vet's office, I cried loudly and uncontrollably for what felt like an hour (probably realistically like 45 seconds though) and just couldn't calm myself down. In the car, she said, 'You know if you didn't bottle it up and let it out a little at a time, you wouldn't get like that.' What she didn't understand at that moment is that for a lot of men, we don't have that middle ground of crying; it's either nothing or everything.
A lot of us never learned HOW to cry in a semi-controlled manner because we never saw a man do that when we were young. I'm 40 years old and I've never seen my father cry, not at any of our weddings, not at his parents' funerals, nothing. In other words, I've never had that subconscious model of how a man is SUPPOSED to cry, and I don't have any practice at it. When I try to MAKE myself cry, I can't, whereas my wife can watch any commercial with sick animals, cry quietly for five seconds, and then be done with it."
—TrumpHasDementia
13."That sometimes, we need personal space, and it has nothing to do with our opinion of you."
—Litigious_Energy_
14."We're still humans, so that means we have feelings, too. So please take care when choosing your words when you're arguing with us."
—KingProMemo123
"My ex would say horrible things when fighting, then wonder why I was not in the mood to have sex with her for a few days afterwards. Seriously, I have learned to hate teachers that would teach the 'sticks and stones' rhyme because the truth is stick and stones can break bones and harsh words will fucking destroy your self-esteem for years requiring mental counseling and even then, you might never heal."
—jaytrade21
15."From a gay dude's perspective, probably explaining that my sexuality doesn't mean I'm an expert on women's beauty stuff. I'll go shopping with you and give you my opinion on outfits, but I'm not some Paris fashion wizard because I get naked with other men. Speaking of which, I can do drag makeup. No, Cindy. That does not mean I'll do your makeup. Why? It's Drag makeup; you will look like a clown fucked a real housewife. Is that what you want, Cindy?"
—JordanStPatrick
16."If I don't jerk off, I can't think straight. I'll end up doing something stupid like invading Poland, starting a megachurch, or buying a timeshare."
—STK1369
17.And finally, "Too clean for the hamper, too dirty for the drawer, that's why I put my cargo shorts on the floor."
—enbenlen
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