EMPathy

I dont want to be treated like an animal.
To be collared, to heed a masters call, to be reliant on other people for my everyday needs, to have my life decisions (such as to be neutered) made for me.

I don't want to be treated like furniture.
To be inanimate. To not be able to move. To being sat on, be used and abused and discarded once i've outlived my usefullness.

Similarly, I suppose none of us want to be treated AS problems.
We wanted to be treated as human beings WITH problems.
Maybe thats where Men are getting it wrong.
Its not really about listening. Its not about the nail in the head.
Its about the way we approach a problem.
We know something has a problem, we go and fix it.
Guys have an ability to feel abstract from their problems.
Maybe women not so much.

Maybe all thats missing from that conversation is this one sentence, "You know I don't think the problem has anything to do with you as a person. Lets look at it from this perspective. The problem is..."
Complex problems. Simple solutions. 10 seconds maximum of additional conversation. Hours saved.