Good thread topic Glib.. I've heard men say this too but it's still hard for me to completly wrap my around.
Here's an excerpt from an interesting article:
What makes men commit?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article4789737.ece
"What the hell is wrong with you?” a girl recently asked me, her face screwed up with concern and incomprehension. What prompted this question was my admission that I was still unmarried. Sadly, I’m now at the age where I need to have a ready excuse for not having settled down. The excuse that works best with women, I’ve learnt, is to shrug my shoulders and lament that I just haven’t met the right girl yet.
The truth is probably simpler than that and best summed up by the “New York taxi driver” theory. According to this idea, men — like New York taxi drivers — cruise around all day, picking up fares. They carry some for a long time, some for just a short while, without giving it all that much thought. But at a certain point, when they’re tired, maybe bored and have had their fill, the taxi driver decides it’s time to turn off his light and go home. Whoever is in the back of his metaphorical relationship taxi at that point is the one he marries.
It’s an unromantic theory that implies that marriage is more a matter of timing than of magic. But there’s something in it. I know of many relationships — including some of my own — that broke down when the women pushed for commitment, but succeeded only in being pushed out of the taxi. The New York taxi driver theory implies that the clever women are the ones who quietly cling on in there, monopolising the back seat, with the doors firmly locked, until the driver is ready to turn off his meter. Did you ever play pass the parcel as a child? The kids who won were the ones who passed it particularly slowly, maximising their time with the parcel.
Men don’t like to admit it, but we talk about relationships every bit as much as women. Especially as we get older. We don’t discuss them like women do: with wisdom and familiarity. Men discuss relationships like monkeys trying to decipher sheet music.One of the main themes of our analysis is: how do you know if she’s The One? What has emerged in my research is that “when” is every bit as important as “who”. This was illuminated the other night when a friend, after a few glasses of wine, confided in me: “If I’d met my wife even a year before I did, there’s no way I would have married her.” It’s not that he doesn’t love her. It’s just that, at that time, he simply wasn’t ready to settle down...
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You gon drive that yt over the cliff so please don't tell him all your many thoughts
do.
erplexed I've seen it happen SO many times.
