Changing Your Mind

Written By:  Andrew Eide

Have you heard the phrase “A woman’s prerogative is to change her mind?”  Did you also know it is a woman’s prerogative (and in her opinion a right and privilege) to change her man’s mind too?

Women will make a decision and then change their mind just before the event.  This causes embarrassment to her man who has either made reservations, called people to inform them they are coming over, or he has committed himself for that specific purpose.  The reason this causes much pain on the man is that the woman refuses to call the affected parties and tell them they cannot come as promised.  She demands that her man call the affected parties and that he take the blame.  And don’t ever let the man make the mistake of saying, “My wife decided not to go,” or “My wife is not feeling well right now so we have to cancel.”  She will complain that he is trying to make her look bad.

Another example is making a decision to go out for dinner.  The woman asks the man, “Where would you like to eat?”  The man knows if he says a Mexican restaurant she will say she wants to go to a steak house.  He knows if he says an Italian restaurant she will say she wants to go to a Chinese restaurant.  So he takes the easiest way out and tells her, “You decide what you want to eat.  Anything is fine with me.”  This will set the woman off because she wants someone else to make the decision so that person can be blamed if it doesn’t work out.  She will try again by saying, “Why don’t you help me decide?” and the man will again mention that anything is fine with him and that she should make the decision.

The worst case of changing the mind occurs when a woman gets dressed.  A man will get dressed and stay dressed.  The woman will change clothes at least twice before being satisfied that what she is wearing is appropriate.  She also will go so far as to try to get the man to change his clothes as many times as she does.  When the man refuses to change his clothes, the woman gets upset because unless someone else is as unreasonable as she is, then she realizes she looks funny changing her clothes for no reason at all.

Men endure…but deep down inside women know they drive their men crazy with their quirks.