"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise." - George Steiner

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A friend was complaining that her boyfriend would not say "I love you," even if explicitly asked to do so. The only exception, she said, was when they were in fact in the act of making love. Then, if asked, he would say the sacred words.

I suggested that she should not take too much comfort in the exception. When making love, I explained, men will say anything.

"He'd tell you he's the Easter Bunny if that's what he thinks you want to hear," I told her. The conversation rattled on from there.

A couple of weeks later, she related the following. "We were in bed, making love and I said, 'Tell me you love me'."

He said, "I love you."

I said, "Tell me you're the Easter Bunny."

He stopped for a second, and said, "I'm the Easter Bunny."

"So I slapped him."

The poor guy probably still doesn't know what happened.


The above is a joke, not an anecdote.

Someone: and this is surprising how?

it is a direct consequence of two factors:
1) men think about sex all the time
2) men cannot multitask.

feel free to deny

hgwt # unknown: constantly obssessing over why their boyfriends/fiances/husbands will not say "i love you" to them.

Me: my preferred explanation:
women are weird and ask for irrational things, which men give because they don’t want to lose. unfortunately, like the question "am I fat", there is no correct answer to it

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