[QUOTE=Bodhi108;2705259]Nah, bro. You’re completely missing the point.
It’s not about a transaction. It’s about recognizing one of the things that your woman needs in order to feel safe, satisfied, and emotionally fulfilled in a relationship. I’m not talking about doing the laundry and taking out the trash. Of course you need to be doing that shit. You need to be doing that shit when you are a single man. That’s a part of being an adult man and if you’re not doing that, break up with your woman and spend some crucial time working on yourself, because you’re being a fucking boyman and not an adult.
Focused attention comes on top of those things. It’s about genuinely listening to your lover, whatever it is she wants to say to you, whether it’s about her day at work, her mother, or her girlfriends. If you can’t give it to her the moment she wants it, that’s fine, but let her know that you need to finish whatever your work is and you promise her your undivided attention as soon as your done.
It’s not economically abusive, but it is about the give and take in a relationship. By and large, women are more sexually giving when they are emotionally fulfilled. If you love your woman, you want her to be emotionally fulfilled, more than that, you want to be the one who emotionally fulfills her.
If you have a problem with the fact that guys enjoy sex…then maybe L3 is not the forum for you.[/QUOTE]
You know, I had this methodical and awesome answer to all of these points, but then I clicked out of the box and hit backspace on accident and it destroyed what I had written.
So, in shittier form:
I agree (mostly) with you. The economic abuse was more a caveat about the line of thought relating to regarding a woman’s needs as being something to only be fulfilled for sex. I’m not saying that was where you were coming from, but it could be misinterpreted as such.
I just think how much attention a girl needs to be happy is not so finite to say 30 minutes. Now some women that’s probably true for, but I think there are a lot of variables involved in that. And the more complex an interpersonal relationship becomes, the more that number increases.
I have absolutely no problem with guys wanting sex. It’s an instinctual urge. I just think dudes need to keep that shit in check, IMO (not removing myself from that demographic). Also, I don’t think that sex should be the primary motivating factor in fulfilling a girl’s emotional needs (also IMO). If you want sex, there are women out there who give it up without any of the other shit involved.
If you love someone, that should be the reason you are doing it. Not sex, which is fleeting in the grand scheme of life. And I just pose a question here: What will motivate you to fulfill her needs when she is no longer sexually attractive to you?