The more I know about men and women, the more I am convinced that they are not only different sexes, but different species. They do not think the same, speak the same, nor listen the same. They are not interested in the same things, and they respond differently to the same stimuli.

Have you ever known a man to get teary eyed over a pair of baby shoes, or a woman who could ignore quarreling children , ringing telephones, or pots boiling over, just because someone is close to making a touchdown on TV?

Women process all information through an emotional filter; men process information directly to the brain stem. A man�s first reaction is fight or flight. If that doesn�t work, then he replies, "I didn�t hear you." A woman is inclined to give hints as to her needs and then lament, "I thought you would have understood."

What each says with their mouth, is changed radically by the time it reaches the brain of the other. A man may say, "I will fix the hot water heater for you." He thinks he is saying, "I love you, so I am keeping your cave in good condition." All she hears is, "The water heater is broken; I don�t want to pay a plumber; this way I don�t have time to go shopping with you."

When she asked him to go on the shopping trip, she thought she was saying, "I like your company; I value your opinion; I want to spend time with you." He hears, "I want to buy more things that I don�t need, and I want you to pay for them." One wonders how the human species has survived.

Maybe it is because there is one area where they speak and hear in unison. This is done with another of the senses, not hearing nor speaking, but touching. When he walks up behind her in the kitchen, wraps his arms around her, and kisses the back of her neck, she knows he is saying, "I am so glad that you are mine." And when she turns with a cook spoon in one hand and caresses his cheek with the other, he understands that she adores him.

Maybe if men and women spoke less and touched more, there would be more harmony.