Lately it’s become clear to me how often men and women willfully misunderstand each other.
A discussion about love, marriage and dividing household responsibilities devolved into an argument about whether socks on the floor constitute a deal-breaker. I was shocked at the speed with which rational thought turned into “men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and never the two shall meet.”
Well, I don’t buy it.
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Kathleen M. Basi 
Very well said, as always. It is good for me to have reminders of how well marriage can work when both the woman and the man remember that they are, in fact, both human.
Socks on the floor a ‘deal breaker’?? I’m amazed that something like that would even be brought up, much less argued over! Go figure. Though I’ve never been married, I know just from living with family members and roommates that to live with other people means learning to be patient with each other’s quirks, habits, temperaments, etc. It can’t be all take and no give. Compromise is necessary. And as one expert remarked to people looking for a spouse, “What you see is what you get!” I.e., don’t expect to change that person after you get married.
Evan