James Bauer
Here’s what it feels like to a man when he first falls in love with a
woman. He feels happy. His happiness flows naturally from
expectations of something wonderful in his future. He feels more
connected with the world, even when she’s not around. His mind is
compartmentalized, so he sometimes gets so engrossed in his work that he
is literally surprised by the joyful emotions that erupt for a few
seconds each time something reminds him of you during the course of his
work day.
If he continues down this road, the euphoria of love makes him start
to adore everything about you. The edges of your lips, your neckline,
the tone of your voice, everything about you starts to seem perfect and
magical. He begins to fantasize about kissing you before his boss snaps
him out of it in the middle of a meeting.
This all sounds pretty close to what you would expect so far, right?
Well, what happens next may seem a little odd. All those positive
feelings build into a desire to become your lover. What that means to a
man is very different than what it means to a woman.
In his quest to become your lover, a man’s feelings will shift toward
a desire to impress you. That sounds nice, right? Well, it can be
nice, or not, depending on how you respond to him.
You see, men have a soft spot underneath the hard emotional
exterior. We may act tough, stubborn, angry, or macho on the outside,
but all that is really serving a softer emotional need. Men cannot
thrive in a deep passionate type of relationship unless they feel they
have a woman’s admiration and respect.
If your man thinks you like him, but he feels you do not really
admire him, the “in love” feelings will quickly fade and often
extinguish completely like the wick of a candle that has been snuffed
out.
If you snuff out the fire from the wick of a candle, it’s out. You
can warm up to him all you want, but he will feel cold and only respond
by blowing little wisps of smoke into your face from the extinguished
flame. Many women have felt this. Some women have been through it more
than once in a marriage.
Men desire admiration in a way that women would find hard to
believe. Testosterone is, as you know, the male sex hormone. When it
is active, he feels manly and alive. He feels happy. Did you know a
man’s testosterone is affected by the way people treat him? It’s true.
If you put a man in a position where he is treated like the low man on
the totem pole, his testosterone will drop.
After a group of men are thrown together, there is a sorting-out
period when a “pecking order” is established. No one talks about it.
It just happens. If you watched a video tape of interactions among men
after about five days, you would be able to tell who was more of the
alpha-male at the top end, and who the people were lower on the pecking
order. If you measured each person’s testosterone before and after
grouping them together, those at the bottom would experience a drop in
testosterone while those toward the top would experience an increase.
Why does this matter? Because men will lose interest in anyone that
accidentally tromps on their ego. And there are all kinds of ways this
happens without you meaning to do it! The feeling can come from
something as simple as the tone of voice you use when offering a
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