"It is only her position today"
The problem is, my wife doesn't seem to change positions as often as the women you are speaking of. Could it be that she is an anomaly (I'm not going to say "freak of nature" ), or is this just another case of me completely misreading her.

"So for us men, when at point 1, we must acknowledge the feelings she expresses while at the same time quietly ignoring those feelings in order to get to point 3. When we are finally able to reconcile, we must honestly acknowledging her feelings at point 4, but we must never let on that we secretly had to discount her feelings at point 1. And while at point 4, we are secretly discounting her latest feelings since we don’t know how much longer before we end up at point 1 again!"

Too much subterfuge for me. I'll never get that model straight in my head. Maybe I'm doomed to failure.

"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"

Inertia Creeps by Massive Attack