But I think the crux of the matter might be the lumping of all women together and saying "this is what women want." I have a lot of women friends and work with many women in my professional life and we do have similarities, one of those being we like to have our needs met. Here's the part that's missing in this manly traits theory, even though we share many of the same needs they may be in a very different priority hierarchy.
In Irons, if you want to know what some women think, read some of the women's threads. Also, pay attention to your wife when she tells you what she needs or recall what she's told you in the past, don't brush it off as unimportant because you don't agree. By validating needs, you validate HER as a person, and that is something we all share.
Make yourself attractive to YOUR wife.
Me 57/H 58 M36 S 2.5yrs R 12/13
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. Caroline Myss