Do men fall harder than women?

[I'm Joe]

When I first came on this website I expected to find a bunch a women talking about their feelings and their crazy hardcore love withdrawl... which is exactly what I was looking for. I always thought my emotions were somewhat "female" in nature since I seem to be affected by love more than any other guys I know.

 

But now that I am on here I seem to see just as many Men if not more men with love worries, questions, and woes as there are women..

 

So what do you think? generally speaking are men harder hit by love than women or is it the other way around?

[prettybaby]

I don't know, but I often think it would be interesting to see every poster's age here. I think that would be the main factor about how confused/emotional certain topics are, rather than what gender posted them.

[boshemia]

I don't really believe so, it seems to me that certain types of people fall harder than others. There is perhaps a different way that man tend to fall than women, just because of gender differences, male versus female gender stereotypes that may have been learned.

 

Maybe men tend to be more stubborn, more determined, or more driven... In my personal experience women are the ones who usually write the angsty poetry, swear off the opposite sex after a break-up, and fall just as hard for the next guy.

 

I'm not saying men don't do these things, I've seen it happen it just seems that the majority of those who seemed to get crazy over love seem to be women in my life, and most of my friends have been males.

 

If you've never read Mars Venus then you are missing out. Men and women just speak different languages. It is hard for a person speaking one language to understand the emotional complexities that are felt by another person speaking a totally different language.

 

So I guess my answer for you would be yes and no, we fall just as hard no matter what our sex, we just handle it in different ways.

[boshemia]

I don't know, but I often think it would be interesting to see every poster's age here. I think that would be the main factor about how confused/emotional certain topics are, rather than what gender posted them.

 

That is an excellent point!

[Island Girl]

I don't think men share as they do here in RL.

 

When they get together with friends the most they can look forward to is "that sucks, man" or "you didn't need her anyway" and the like.

 

Here I think they can really put it out there and the guys that do want to share can share back.

 

That said I think there are just as many women as men because the women who aren't here are doing their chatting to their friends, family, or whoever will listen!

[OpenBook]

we fall just as hard no matter what our sex, we just handle it in different ways.

 

I agree. Men have feelings too, the same as us. They just manifest them differently, they choose different ways to deal with them. IMO they are a lot more practical about their emotions than us women are.