b"Chapter 5 If requests always call for positive responses, they are indeed requests and men will feel the difference.If a man complains about a request, he's really thinking about it, and the best approach is to just wait for him to make a decision without saying anything more while aiming to accept the outcome gracefully.12.A question of maturity: in relationships, unresolved negative feelings can arisewithoutwarning,andwesuddenlybecomeupset,sensitive,or distant. When this happens to our partners, we must encourage them to overcome this situation, accepting that it may take time and that they may need outside support as well as ourselves while doing our best to control any impatience or resentment we might feel toward them during these times.Love necessarily changes over time. The pristine happiness we feel when we first fall in love doesn't last forever, and over time our personal flaws andnegativebaggageinevitablybecomeexposed.Butifweremain faithful through the ups and downs of each other's lives, then our initial happinessgraduallytransformsintoamatureformoflovethatcan become stronger and more complete over the years. 13.Life Changing Factors: be responsible for your actions, otherwise you are a victim. We react differently to external stress.Men detach themselves and analyze calmly. Women experience strong emotions when evaluating support. Men misinterpret women's emotions as needing resolution.Most couples get stuck in a pattern where she gives more and he gives less,thensheresentshim,sohegivesevenlessbecausehe'snot appreciated.Rememberthattheworldisconstantlychanging.Itisalsoimportantto understand that you must take into account the society around you, not only from a gender point of view, but also from a racist, spiritual, political, economic, etc. side, in order to gauge your interactions.There is also the genetic history that comes into account. Women these days are much more eager for career challenges and are looking more for a certain levelofindependence.Traditionallymaleoccupationsarenowfilledby energetic women who wish to be in control of their destiny.However, man is a man and woman is a woman and the genetics of several thousand years quickly comes to the surface among other things under the emotions.180Germain Decelles"