What I don't enjoy is a doormat yes-man no-opinion-having passive limp noodle.


I don't think my wife thinks of me like that, but I do get hints from time-to-time. Small hints, joking ("I only married you so he could open my jars for me"). Sometimes I think women think of men like the character Ray Romano plays as Ray Barone in "Everybody Loves Ray". No one can give the Doesn't Have a Clue About Women look like Ray Romano. My favorite line from that show is from his wife ("Honey, I'm tired. Can you just call yourself an idiot.")

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929.