3 Lies Women Tell Themselves About What Men Want

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Sometimes, we women are making it harder than it has to be because we are constantly feeding ourselves ridiculous lies about men. Crappy men do exist and fuckboys do exist, but that does not mean every man is like that. The moment women stop feeding themselves certain lies about men, they will be able to be in happier relationships.




Maybe it started when your kindergarten friend pulled you aside and whispered a warning into your ear after seeing you dash across the schoolyard in a game of kissing tag at recess.

Or later, when you told your best friend your most prized secret, that youโ€™d had your first real kiss (with tongue!).



Certainly, some helpful female family members or friends laid down the facts for you when Aunt Flow came for her first visit. And by the time you were a grown woman, adulting all over the place โ€” dating, hooking up, and everything in between โ€” you not only had the facts, but you were also doling out sage advice of your own.

We, women, have been cautioning each other and having each otherโ€™s backs about men since the beginning of time, but some of the things we share about what men want are just bold-faced lies (whether we know it or not).

The real problem is this:




These lies we tell make finding and keeping lasting love h-a-r-d.

Here are the top three worst offendersโ€ฆand the truth about whatโ€™s really going on with men of all ages:

1. Men only want sex and theyโ€™ll do and say anything to get it.

I know your mama warned youโ€ฆ

Translation: Men are liars and tricksters. Theyโ€™ll pull out all the stops to snatch your snatch before you can even comprehend what just happened.

Thereโ€™s a second layer to this artfully frosted shit-cake of a lie, which is that they donโ€™t care about any other part of you. They picked you because they thought they could get one over on you, stupid girl.

This line, often delivered by the well-intentioned among us, does more damage than it does good. It has us fearing men as a pack and diminishing ourselves instead of seeing people as individuals and putting stock in our own abilities to judge character.




Being valued just for our vaginas (as fabulous as they are) is not how most of us want to view ourselves. And besides, this one is just plain untrue. Whatโ€™s charming and magnetic about a woman is what sheโ€™s passionate about, and guys are drawn to our authenticity, self-confidence, and passion.

There. Glad we put that one to bed.

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2. Men are commitment-phobes.

So, if guys only want sex and sex is available all over the place, why would they ever want to commit to us?

Itโ€™s surprising anyone gets together at all considering how bitter and untrusting this lie makes us. Itโ€™s not that guys are commitment-phobes; they just tend to have a different relationship and process to commitment.

Have you ever met a woman who liked a guy and said โ€œyesโ€ to a relationship, but she also had a lengthy laundry list of things sheโ€™d need to change about him? You know this woman, right? Ever see her in the mirror?

This is not the standard M.O. for most guys. They commit 100 percent to the entire laughs-too-loud, stays-up-too-late, is-grouchy-in-high-humidity, and is-an-over-sharer package or they donโ€™t commit at all. And when someone else calls her on it in front of him, he says, โ€œYeah, thatโ€™s just how she is, but sheโ€™s adorable, isnโ€™t she?โ€




Ever notice that when it comes to people trying to fix or change each other, the scales are heavily tipped to the female-doing-the-fixing side? This is where adages like โ€œGet a man, keep a man, and keep him in lineโ€ comes from.

Can you imagine what weโ€™d do if the common phrase was โ€œGet a woman, keep a woman, and keep her in lineโ€ instead? Can you imagine? Because I can. We would lose our shit.

This whole change and fixing business is why it takes men longer to commit. They need time to look and see if they are willing to commit to that whole package โ€” and when they do, theyโ€™re in. No fixing needed.

Which is good news, and may calm your nerves for the last lie.

3. All men want are young, hot girls and not women their own age.

Youโ€™ve watched it happen. Your contemporaries are divorcing after the kids are off to college and within the first year, he has a smoking-hot girlfriend half his age and sheโ€™s still single. Itโ€™s true, just like youโ€™ve always feared: Men want younger (than you) women.




If youโ€™re married or partnered, does this have you wondering if youโ€™re next?

Fun fact: Women initiate 60 percent of divorces later in life.

If youโ€™re single, do you feel doomed that no man your age will want you?

โ€œAm I attractive enough?โ€ and โ€œIs he still attracted to me?โ€ are questions that plague most women throughout our lives.

This myth could have you living in fear, or leave you angry and bitter. Hey, guess whatโ€™s super unattractive to men? An angry, bitter woman.

When men go younger, it has everything to do with being able to impress her. What comes along with the distinguished gray hair is the need to be admired, and men are pretty insistent about this as a core need of theirs. This is also not a need that women his age are often willing to pony up.



So, when they start dating younger women, weโ€™re stuck thinking, โ€œIโ€™m past my prime. He wants younger women and thatโ€™s it.โ€

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But hereโ€™s the thing: He doesnโ€™t care about how young the woman heโ€™s dating is โ€” he wants appreciation and playfulness.

If you got tangled up in these three lies, thereโ€™s hope! Itโ€™s possible to turn it all around. Replace these lies with some fundamental truths:

  • Men want sex (just like you do). They also want intimacy, connection, love, and companionship.
  • Men commit to the whole package. So, it takes a little longer for most guys to find their forever person.
  • Men want lasting love with someone who can be playful, admire him, and see and appreciate him for the man heโ€™s become. When heโ€™s met with that kind of respect and adoration in a long-term marriage or partnership, what he says next is, โ€œI could have never done it without you.โ€

Men arenโ€™t a total mystery, but they arenโ€™t the same as women, either. Our different chemistry means that men donโ€™t always do things the way women would, which often leaves us feeling hurt, dismissed, unappreciated, or unseen.

Taking the time to see and celebrate our differences can leave us in much better shape for each other.


Usually, the lies women tell themselves just to justify their actions of getting into bad relationships that led to bad marriages.

Dear Woman, Itโ€™s not really too late for you to start identifying the lies you tell yourself so that you may avoid a void in your relationship and shattered dreams.

By telling the truth, you have every chance to find the very best man and the love of your love.

To read more from her, hereโ€™s the link to her recent book, 121 First Dates, the Book  The Anti-Rules Book of Practical Wisdom Based on Misadventures on 121 First Dates.




Written By Wendy Newman
Article originally published in Yourtango
Printed With Permission from the author

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