MYTH 10
Men and women live on different planets
A basic premise of a great many relationship books is that men and women are fundamentally very different creatures. With over 70 million copies of John Gray’s famous book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus in circulation over the last decade, it’s no wonder this particular assumption has stamped itself so indelibly upon the public consciousness in Western culture. Gray says that a lot of what goes wrong in relationships between men and women stems from our failure to appreciate just how different they are, and claims that only when men and women are able to respect and accept their differences does ‘love [have] a chance to blossom’.
Now I am not attempting to deny that men and women are ...
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