Guys ARE sensitive.

Look everyone knows that it is a well-known fact that women outlive men by at least a few years. I think I can explain why. Don’t even start with scientific explanations, fuck science, science can only do what people can do and that has never been a whole lot or meant a whole lot to me. Here is my non-scientific explanation of why I feel men die at a younger age than their female counterparts. To me it’s quite simple. It has to do with emotional strength and sensitivity. Congrats, I just lost half of you….stay with me. Look I hate the rep that guys get for being insensitive. Just cause I don’t burst into tears after hitting a squirrel with my car doesn’t mean that I don’t have feelings. Just cause I don’t get all warm inside after the grinch saves Christmas is no reason for anyone to think that I don’t have a heart. So here is my train of thought. Guys really are sensitive, they just have a hard time of showing it and they prioritize their sensitivity. It’s almost like a defense mechanism you could say. I have come to think that perhaps women are more adapt to survival than men. They don’t put up defense mechanisms like guys do, they don’t shy away from commitment, and most don’t hold back feelings or run away from their problems. And when women get hurt they cry and deal with it, no denial, no excuses, just ice cream and lifetime movies. So I’m guessing that men probably need women a lot more than women need men. Correction. I’m not guessing. Look ladies, don’t expect a guy to spill his heart to you until its too late, don’t expect a guy to tell you that he loves you till you are tapping your foot at the dinner table during your anniversary. I’m not saying all guys are like this. I’m just throwing this out there to make you realize that in a way we are our own worst enemies when it comes to you. And we defiantly need you more than we like to admit. And I defiantly feel that at the heart of every strong family is a strong woman, hopefully standing next to an equally strong man or at least a man that is man enough to admit that his wife is a stronger person than he is. I think that is why when a significant other dies; women become widows and men become alcoholics. Women can just deal with loss a whole lot better. I think that is why men die sooner. It’s God’s way of protecting men from ever having to bear the responsibility of burying our wives; knowing that in a sense, a huge part of us dies with them. Knowing that we just don’t know how to deal with that kind of emotion. Men can skin their knee and laugh about it, pull out splinters with their teeth but I can’t even imagine how much this would hurt. So this is what I promise you. If I am so blessed to have 50, 60 years of marriage with the woman of my dreams, and if one day I wake up next to her and she has passed away…..I can tell you this….that will be the day that I’ll die of a broken heart and be buried right next to her. I wouldn’t want it any other way.