This seemed like a pretty clear personal attack on me and my opinions. I didn't have to read between any lines to see that you don't understand me (because I don't fit the above description) and that you are sort of turned off by me.
First let me say that it was an “attack” on your opinion, but I don’t see anywhere that I attacked you personally. Why do you think it is “clear” that I attacked you?
As for your reading between the lines, you are making the assumption that I don’t understand you. I think I do. But I see things differently. What I have heard from you in the past does seem to be a feminist mantra, in that you think men should cater to a woman’s emotions to keep peace and cooperation in the marriage. Or perhaps you think both men and women should do so in order to keep the peace. (Recall this conversation surrounded whether you thought I was being insensitive in not wanting to talk at length with my wife about her work issues.)
So again my point was: I am trying to understand why you want me to answer all sorts of questions about myself given that I am not some one you "like" interacting with...
I never said I don’t like interacting with you (or should I say I do like interacting with you, in proper “Corri speak”). Perhaps what I sense from you is the need to please others and always smooth things over, to avoid hard feelings and in a covert way to convince others that your diplomatic, more accommodative POV is the right one. I sense there is more behind this than you just trying to understand others.
So I ask myself if this perception is true and if it is, then why? Over time I have come to believe that my perception has some merit. I haven’t been able to put together a hypothesis of why that is until just recently. So in some ways, if my suspicions have any merit at all, you present a very large challenge.
