Finding Momentum

One point of fric­tion between myself and Sarah is that we have a really, really hard time com­mu­ni­cat­ing. I mean, it doesn’t help that women are elab­o­rate enig­mas, and as men we are Aston­ish­ingly Dense. Gen­tle­men, tell me if you’ve ever heard the fol­low­ing from your ladies:

You just don’t get me.

I wanted you to lis­ten and feel with me.

Stop giv­ing me solu­tions and just lis­ten to me.

Why are you so quiet?

No, that’s not what I meant.

Are you lis­ten­ing to me?

I want you to want to.

I don’t have to tell you; you should just know it already.

WELL,

Sarah just gave me the Best Valentine’s Gift Ever:

It’s basi­cally like get­ting the other team’s play­book. Every­body wins, so it’s even better.

Sarah made me an instruc­tion man­ual for Valentine’s Day. No, seri­ously. It’s a cute hand­crafted book with lit­tle snip­pets of lists of her likes and dis­likes, her basic info, and most of all, this men­tal model and deci­sion dia­gram of the female brain (well, hers at least).

My log­i­cal, ratio­nal, Engi­neer mind rejoices. I love this girl.