The Truth Is In There

Why do women, with whom you have a relationship with, at some point, normally at a time in the day when you are quite happily just enjoying each others company but not holding any kind of conversation turn to you and ask

“What are you thinking?”

Why?

You will never hear a man ask his significant other this question. What is it within a woman that makes her ask this? Why does she want to know? Does she really want to know or is she looking for some kind of fabricated answer?

The knee jerk reaction for most men when the question is posed is to simply say,

“Nothing”

To which the woman will almost definitely reply

“You must be thinking something.”

Women obviously have underestimated mans ability to do absolutely nothing. It is a practiced and mastered skill. A man can waste hours, days, even weeks and not accomplish a damn thing. Training normally begins in our early teens and is mastered over the years that follow. It takes very little for a man to empty his mind of everything; to be perfectly honest there normally isn’t a great deal to empty. We are skilled in the art of doing nothing.

However, women in general will not accept this fact and continue to push you for an answer. At this point man attempts to jump start his mind from the state of nothingness, this is a feat in itself comparable to trying to start an old car on a cold and frosty morning, once ignited back into life man will attempt to conjure up a believable answer and at the same time try to seize the opportunity of acquiring some much needed brownie points from his beloved. This is where we often fall down, having struggled for years to comprehend the female mind we truly believe that she wants to hear something along the lines of, “I was just thinking how beautiful you are”, or “I was just thinking how lucky I am to be with you”, or worse still “I was just contemplating our relationship and think we should discuss taking it to the next level”.

The problem with this is that most women will see straight through this, and although most will be grateful that you tried would much rather have heard the truth.

Now this really can pose a problem. Women don’t need to know the truth; not really, they may think that they do but honestly they are much better kept in the dark about the inner workings of the male psyche. The truth will only ever make your good lady think less of you and knock a few feet off the pedestal that I am sure she holds you on.

A woman doesn’t want to know that whilst walking through the town with her you are thinking what it would be like to be a Transformer and that at any point the VW Golf parked across the road could suddenly spring into life and attack you. That you would then engage in a ferocious battle to the death in order to save the human race from complete annihilation. She also doesn’t need to know that during your romantic stroll through the park you are under the belief that you are an international spy and that the bench by the bush would make a good drop off point for the micro film you earlier acquired from the Russians. That it provides good all round visibility for any impending dangers and the bridge crossing the stream will make the perfect observation point to witness the pick up.

None of this information will be of any benefit to the young lady. You are much better off having to sit down and discuss the future of your relationship, which as all men know is a complete minefield but does offer you the opportunity to once again empty your mind of everything and nod at the appropriate times for good measure throwing in occasional noises of agreement and is a far better outcome than your other half discovering that you want to be Bond, James Bond.



When the inevitable question is posed, no matter what you do, do not mention the truth, as far as women are concerned the truth most definitely is not out there.