Thursday, September 3, 2009

Why Men Won't Commit


A question that has plagued me forever and contines to plague me...while searching for some answers from women who have wondered the same thing, I came across some interesting observations ...I thought posting them in a blog format seemed fitting.:



What do you do when men won't commit? You can jump ship at the first sign of panic and save yourself the heartache of attachment and endless tears, or you can sit there on the turbulent seas of his indecisiveness hanging on for dear life and praying that you don't get tossed overboard before you find his emotional life preserver... but hey... realistically speaking, why bother?




The second category of men have women lined up to get them to commit. These kinds of men will make these women wait - there's a wait time of approximately 2 billion years.
These women are convinced they are going to be THE chosen one. The one who finally snag him, the one who didn't let him get away so they will put up with bad behavior because after all, that's just the way he is.
This switch in a woman's brain is called her nurturing switch but when turned off, it becomes very deadly.
A woman whose "switch" has gone off will do things like beg, crawl, whine, accommodate, be understanding, remain "friends," feel bad, and plain out lie to herself because she's confusing a "connection" with a real relationship.
It is because she's using a primitive part of her brain that is supposed to help her take care of her offspring - a non-committal man becomes her "baby"
He says he's not ready so she accepts it. He says he wants to live together first, so she agrees. He says it's too expensive to get married and she nods up and down. She just can't find the power to climb up out of the hole of negative emotional conditioning.
So she's ready to give him sex. She's ready to move in together without a ring. She doesn't mind being the waiter girlfriend because her non-committal man would rather put a new flat screen TV on his credit card while thinking "Marriage? Whatever!"




Some women, however, are already past the position of the hypothetical young woman addressed in the first post. They are in a relationship; the man has, to some degree, already made a commitment, but they cannot get him to take the next step (whatever that may be).
My advice for women in this situation is: withdraw. If you are not getting what you want, pull back. Break up with him and tell him why. If you live together, move out. Make it clear that what you want cannot wait any longer. And if he won’t get on board, then set sail without him.
This will do one of two things.
1) He’ll freak out, realize what he’s got, and make the commitment you want.
Or,
2) He’ll let you go.
Number 2 sounds terrible, especially if you are in love with the man, but understand that you cannot have a deeper commitment with someone who doesn’t want to commit to you. If he’s willing to let you go, that means he’s willing to let you go. You should just take the hit – as hard as it may be – because, in the long run, you’ll have the opportunity to meet someone who will commit to you in the way you want.



I think it's all good advice..why be with someone who does want want YOU and Just YOU.



2 comments:

  1. Good advice! There are men out there who will commit and are happy to - it's just the players who get in the way.

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  2. You are so right darling..so right..and the ones who are players..are NOT the ones you want.

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