Understanding Gender Differences: Insights from Mars and Venus

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The book Men are from Mars and women are from venus is about the martians (men) and the Venusians (women) that meet and fall in love with each other because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets. But the effects of the earth’s atmosphere took hold, and one morning everyone woke up with a peculiar of amnesia. Both the Martians and Venusians forgot that they were from different planets and were suppose to be different. And since that day men and women have been in conflict.
This makes the martians and the venusians are different like men and women are different. The martians expect the venusians to act like them, and the venusians expect the martians to feel and behave like the venusians. Men and women are so busy trying to understand their own gender that they don 't have the time to understand and respect the other gender.
On Venus, they are very interested in personal growth, spiritually and everything that can nurture life, healing and growth. Venusians are very intuitive, anticipate, offer help without being asked.
Because one’s competence is not as important to a woman, needing help is not a sign of weakness. A man sometimes feels offended because when a woman offers advice he doesn’t feel she trusts do it himself. But offering help to a …show more content…

The martians and the venusians languages had the same words but the words had totally different mmeanings than the others.To fully express their feelings, women assume poetic license to use various superlatives, metaphors, and generalizations. The number 1 complaint women have in relationships is I don’t feel heard. Even this complaint is misunderstood by men.
One of the biggest challenges for men is correctly to interpret and support a woman when she is talking about her feelings. The biggest challenge for women is correctly to interpret and support a man when he isn’t talking. Silence is most easily misinterpreted by

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