"As a man, I think you brush it off and try again. As a woman, I take it personally, like "what is wrong with me?" type of thinking."
I think most men, including myself, take rejection VERY personally, and it is a huge blow to our ego when the woman who supposedly loves us more than anything else in the world rejects us for sex. In many men's minds that is one of the primary reasons they got married.
Now that I have become more educated I realize that rejection has many causes and not all of them are directed against me. Even so I still struggle with it. I think most guys though haven't put much time into educating themselves about R issues, so for them rejection is still very personal.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if many men who were rejected by their W's while the kids were young, reject their W's in turn when the kids get older in some part as a measure of revenge, maybe not even consciously. Not that I'm saying that mindset is justified, but I can see it happening.
Chrome
"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"
