We Check Out Other Women (Even if We’re in Relationships)

Sorry, but we notice a hot girl any time any place. Hopefully most of us don’t make it obvious, but we check out a cutie when we can. The worst is if your younger sister or best friend is hot, we’ll check her out too.

Sometimes We Like Being Told What to Do

One of the reasons we won’t commit is because we don’t want to be told what to do. But, it’s no secret that we don’t like to think, and we struggle with details. So when you tell us clearly what to do, how to do it, and map it out for us, we can go about accomplishing a task without anxiety. Also, if we follow your directions precisely and you’re still unsatisfied, then you’re more unsatisfied with the directions you gave us, and not our execution of the instructions.

We Cry and Have Emotional Moments with Our Buddies

After my little sister’s wedding, I talked over my feelings with a few of my guy friends. We might as well have been on the couch watching movies with a bottle of wine with the deep emotional things we were saying to each other. But it happens. And, we do cry — we just try not to do it in front of anyone. I shed tears when I think about old memories, or see something sad on TV,or a song hits me just the right way.

We Fear Growing Older

This is explicitly linked to our weight sensitivity. As we get older, we gain weight, we lose our hair,we get tired faster, and younger guys look better in our presence. It’s especially painful for athletic guys who can’t quite do the things they used to do physically. We go through depressions, mid-life crises, etc…until finally we just give up.

We Say We’ll Call Even if We Don’t Mean It

We always say we’ll call, because it’s the nice thing to say. It’s almost as thoughtless as the “fine” answer when someone asks us how we’re doing. Would you rather us say: “Look, I’m not planning to call you?” And sometimes at that very moment we say we’ll call, we do mean it, but then after 24 hours we change our mind after sleeping on it.