znaylor1974

It's the money isn't it?

The Crow

I think you should run courses

rabsody

Is your skill to listen to them? I reckon that's what women really want (well, me anyway) - a partner who listens to them, engages with them, respects them, and gives them a bit of attention when required

Failing that, the diamonds, convertibles and chocolates will do!

Pollyana

Much the same as they want in north Brisbane.....Thorntons Truffles (fussy about my chocolate!) and a good bottle of champagne

Pomster

Not sure I could be classed as a girl by any stretch of imagination, but I was once!

What would I like? A good undisturbed night's sleep. No snoring husband, no snuffly upset baby with chickenpox, no cat hogging half the bed.

Failing that- a pile of diamonds and I can sell a few to employ a nanny for a week or so!

TiddlyPom

And yet, somehow, there exists an irony, that you still call your wife 'Chief'

BadgeIsBack

Yup - because she is in charge - most of the time. ''Other half'' sounds insulting, sort of like I knocked her up at 18 and we've co-habited ever since in amongst pizza and fags, wife implies some sort of medieval ownership.

Half of it is - I reckon, be naughty but nice - nothing wrong with being nice at all. Problem is, alot of blokes try too hard to be naughty, or don't have enough material to be truly so - especially the young ones - and then forget to be nice.

It's either rough diamond or metrosexual - men seem to have few opportunities to really learn about themselves these days.

Weirdstone

How patronising !
Are all the girls you know bimbos?

TiddlyPom

Men have as much opportunity to learn about themselves as anyone else. It's purely down to their motivation!

BadgeIsBack

Not necessarily...although acquisition or prior ownership of it might show enterprise or evidence of good fortune.

Bringing home the dough is sufficient for millions of women.

TiddlyPom

And for millions of men.... the pay off is that millions of women are still the main child carers at home...and if men had to pay women salaries for the work they do at home, they'd be bankrupt.

Weirdstone

I know I want more than that from my man

BadgeIsBack

Listening is one skill. But emotional approachability and a little bit of intuition too - right time, right place. Doesn't mean you have to write a poem every 5 minutes ...

It's called emotional intelligence, isn't it? A bit goes a long way for both men and women. Apparently it's a skill that people often don't concentrate on enough.

BadgeIsBack

indeed. If the other bod in the relationship earnt more, she'd be the doughmaker and I'd be at home.

Comparitive Advantage. (Economics)

BadgeIsBack

When I said sufficient, I meant of course that other things counted - by defintion as we are not all billionaires.