16th June, 2009 - Men are from Mars (but don't ask us to tell you about it)

I have been spending a bit of time with my old man in the hospital recently. A serious operation is a time when you reassess your priorities and relationship. We are men though, and of course, communicating our inner feelings involves a certain degree of circumnavigation.


Women, of course, suggest that men do not communicate their inner feelings to one another. That is not true. We just do it in a different way. For example, a woman will say “I love you dad”, which has the benefit of simplicity I grant you. However, we men do it a different way, what we do is talk about work and football for about an hour and a half, and then clumsily shake hands at the end of visiting hour.

It communicates the same thing, just in a different way.