Sure, all those things you describe about men are true, but I also see strength in a man who knows where his weakness is and isn't afraid to admit it, to ask his equal sharing woman partner for help and support. In the right way, showing weakness makes a strong man.
Overall I don't think there is a set pattern for men or women. There are similarities in genders, but I think it is the two individuals and the dynamics that makes each relationship. I see friends and their H's that do everything for the wife, to the point she can't help herself do it. I think wow, how nice to be so pampered, how lucky! Before that thought is all the way out, I think no way would I want to be stuck having someone do everything for me and not having the ability to do for myself. It wouldn't seem right to be that dependent, at least not in my world.
Sometimes we just get tired of the roles we have, the roles we took on and created or the roles we have now because of a WAS. Bummer, can't we just ask for a script rewrite instead of replacement characters?
Live your life while you are still living. Riding the trail less traveled.
