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Gender Roles
her gender role. In this situation, you are likely to have a
successful relationship because you balance each other out.
If you don’t play your gender role, or don’t allow a woman
to play hers, role reversal will occur and the relationship will
fail. I’ll tell you more about role reversal shortly, but first
I want to talk about the dichotomy that exists within every
man.
There are two basic parts to your personality: the little boy,
and the man. It’s natural for the
little boy to want to live his life
based on his feelings. However,
You’re allowed to feel, but you can’t
as we just discussed, being openly
emotional falls within the realm of
allow those feelings to influence your
the female gender role. So does
decision-making process when you’re in a
that mean that, as a man who is
committed to playing the male
relationship.
gender role, you’re never allowed
to feel?
Not exactly. What it really means is that you’re not allowed
to make emotionally-based decisions. If you start making
emotionally-based decisions, the women you’re with will
feel that they can’t make emotionally-based decisions. Two
emotional people do not make a healthy relationship! To
compensate, the women will begin to replace their feelings
with logic, and will start to lead the relationship. Role reversal
will occur: you will be forced into the female gender role,
and she will be forced into the male gender role. Neither of
you will be happy with the dynamic in the relationship, and
you will blame each other for your unhappiness.
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