What you have been enlightened to, is the CORE of how a man operates...
And if you want to know rejection, just watch us when we can't get a frickin' tent put together in the woods... it can get pretty ugly when the tent rejects us...
But as one starts to add on the layers and intricacies of life... yes, it seems like it's all so complicated...
And that's hopefully some of the stuff we learn through this DB process...
We might KNOW to make time for the other spouse... but we THINK that it's OK, this time, to just keep going with our lives...
We might KNOW to engage our spouse in conversations, or offer little perks, no and then... take out the garbage without being asked... thank the spouse for taking the garbage out, whether they were asked or not... spend time in bed together, even if it's not about sex and even if it's not normal for both parties to go to sleep at the same time... listen and validate the other... empathize with each other...
Now, we actually understand the consequences...
But life gets busy... and sometimes we forget... or sometimes we don't have the energy... and look what happens...
When life gets in the way... what are we going to do differently, now...?