Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray

Men mistakenly expect women to think, communicate, and react the way men do women mistakenly expect men to feel, communicate, and respond the way women do. We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways-the ways we react and behave when we love someone. This attitude sets us up to be disappointed again and again and prevents us from taking the necessary time to communicate lovingly about our differences. We desire them to “want what we want” and “feel the way we feel.” We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways-the ways we react and behave when we love someone. We expect the opposite sex to be more like ourselves. We usually become angry or frustrated with the opposite sex because we have forgotten this important truth. REMEMBERING OUR DIFFERENCES Without the awareness that we are supposed to be different, men and women are at odds with each other. And since that day men and women have been in conflict. In one morning everything they had learned about their differences was erased from their memory. But the effects of Earth’s atmosphere took hold, and one morning everyone woke up with a peculiar kind of amnesia-selective amnesia! Both the Martians and Venusians forgot that they were from different planets and were supposed to be different.

In the beginning everything was wonderful and beautiful. For years they lived together in love and harmony. They spent months learning about each other, exploring and appreciating their different needs, preferences, and behavior patterns. Though from different worlds, they reveled in their differences. They delighted in being together, doing things together, and sharing together. The love between the Venusians and Martians was magical. Their hearts opened wide to a love they had never felt before. They had intuitively known that this day would come. The Venusians welcomed the Martians with open arms. They fell in love and quickly invented space travel and flew to Venus. Just glimpsing the Venusians awakened feelings they had never known. One day long ago the Martians, looking through their telescopes, discovered the Venusians.

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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray