The woman is always right

My brother has requested that I actually post on my blog. While it no longer serves any real purpose for me, I don't mind posting a couple of things every now and again. So here ya go, bro.

Several weeks ago, a group of us were playing a game called Loaded Questions. I won't explain how the game works, but one particular question that was asked was what should a guy never do is a relationship. As typical with me, I'm going to find some witty intelegent way of answering the question, so I turned the above statement on its head. My response to the question was that a guy should never say he's right when he is right. This statement got me thinking a little about this phrase, "The woman is always right." The more I think about it, the less I like the consequences of what the above statement means.

First, as I did above and turned it on its head to say that even when the guy it right, he shouldn't say that he is right. In other words, you're asking the guy in the relationship to lie to you. If you're asking the guy to lie to you, how does that foster any sort of trust in the relationship. You would think that with this intimate and personal of a relationship with somebody, you would want trust to be a core value of that relationship, and yet we undermine it unknowingly with a phrase like this one.

This phrase is hardly a phrase that sponsers communication as well. I'm sure one would look at this quote and asume that it's just talking about little things here and there. But once this pattern of lying about little things to keep the peace is established, when it comes around to important issues, what's to stop that pattern from continueing. How far will you continue to lie to keep the peace, instead of bringing up an issue that only will worsen as time continues.

Anyway, just some random thoughts.