{"id":1069,"date":"2014-02-01T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T05:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2014-02-01T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T05:18:12","slug":"vive-la-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/vive-la-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Vive la Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many years ago, John Gray, made a mark (and a gazillion dollars) with his hugely popular Men are from Mars, Women are from Venu<\/em>\"manandwoman\"<\/a>s<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Between its hardcovers (and I recall it being in hardback for a long, long time – well after most personal growth\/self help books had gone into paperback) Gray talked about the many fundamental differences between men and women.\u00a0 For years after its release, I listened to experienced marital therapists dismiss him and his book as overly simplistic.\u00a0 While there may<\/em> be some truth to that, I think it’s hard to ignore the reality that the two sexes do seem to process the world differently……as a general\u00a0rule.\u00a0 <\/em>There are always going to be exceptions to these rules, but some things do <\/em>seem to be gender related.\u00a0 One example is the way women often prefer to talk things out.\u00a0 If something has happened in her life, she wants to be able to talk it through, being pretty confident that she can come up with a solution herself as she airs out the experience.\u00a0 He, on the other hand, likes to drive for solutions.\u00a0 Any problem raised is an invitation to come up with a solution.\u00a0 When one person interacts with the other, the solution-seeker may get frustrated by the continued recounting of the problem, while the problem-discusser is frustrated by the other’s quick-cut to a solution.\u00a0 It feels like she’s being shut down.\u00a0 Well, we are lucky to have this problem described and solved<\/em> <\/span><\/span>in a two-minute YouTube video<\/a>.\u00a0 If you have not seen this yet, enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many years ago, John Gray, made a mark (and a gazillion dollars) with his hugely popular Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.\u00a0\u00a0 Between its hardcovers (and I recall it being in hardback for a long, long time – well after most personal growth\/self help books had gone into paperback) Gray talked about the Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[25,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}