Trump's approval rating is climbing.

[Catholic_Lady]

The problem is ignorance and lack of acceptance of the true nature of human wants and desires; imposition of religious values that are in direct conflict of that true nature, brought on, in no small part, by sexual jealously .

Can you say what you are referring to here?

I'd be curious to know, so I can know what you're talking about that makes you think my religious values are a detriment to my marriage.

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It's been my observation, both in my family and in my friend groups, that most conflict/divorces have been mainly the man's shortcoming. This is why it seems to me women are generally better than men at relationships. There's also the fact that women generally tend to be more caring, nurturing, compassionate, and selfless, by nature.

There's exceptions, which is why I'm saying "generally."

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With all due respect, you don't have nearly enough of a cross section to say 'generally'. Stick with 'in my family and friends' which is much more representative of what you actually know.

I won't rehash what I've already covered. Suffice it to say that its been my observation that people (women and men both) tend to suck at relationships unless and until, they decide to learn how to get better at them. Very often I find women and men both tend to blame the failure on the shortcomings of other person and go on to make the same mistakes over and over again.

Its also been my observation that save for two or three rare exceptions, anytime you say men tend to be better at X or women tend to be better at Y, you're talking out of your ass. Giving birth to babies and growing mustaches and multitasking are the only exceptions I personally know of. Women have been scientifically shown to be better at the first and third, men at the second. Other than that, its pretty much equal.

But since we're also talking in anecdotes and person observations, I'll give you one or two of my own that directly relate to this line of conversation. Way back when in my youth, I wanted to be a professional musician. And I was lucky enough to get to do that long enough to realize I actually hated it. So while most people's first exposure to bars is as an intoxicated patron, my first exposure was as a sober band member.

One of the first things I noticed in my 'being an adult and frequenting bars' phase was how many couples in the crowd were cheating on their spouses. That in itself wasn't really surprising to me. What was surprising was that I expected most of the cheaters to be men but in fact, almost all of the ones I saw cheating on spouses were women. Imagine that eh? But do you see me claiming women cheat more than men? Nope.

Then there's this. I've been in my fair share of committed monogamous relationships. I've never once cheated on a partner in any of them. I have no idea if any of them cheated on me. But what I do know is I was also once in a relationship with a married woman. Imagine that, I have one unfaithful relationship except I wasn't the one cheating, she was. Do you think it was because her husband was ugly?

I disagree with you that men and women are equal in everything except giving birth and growing a mustache, but that's a conversation for a different thread.

Statistics show that over all, more men than women cheat. I was curious, so I googled it and posted the link.