If I could give a piece of advice to women it would be this: don’t assume that our minds works like yours. We’re not stupid, but we often do think and act differently, so don’t assume that our reaction (especially an initial reaction with no time for thought) will be the same one that you would have.
I was joking with my office neigbor here at work, and I said that women often make the mistake of anthromorphizing men – she replied “isn’t that when you ascribe human traits to animals”? and I said “exactly”. Obviously I was kidding, but I often do think that men will react to many situations on a baser or simpler level. It is not that we are incapable of complex thought, but rather we choose (deliberately or not, I don’t know) not to complicate an issue more than necessary. If there is something that appears to need doing, then do it, or not, but there is no need to talk to death a relatively simple question.
The same advice works in reverse – don’t assume that a woman cannot figure out a question just because she wants to talk it through (what may seem to you ad naseum). In any case, just realize that you are not marrying a clone of yourself with different reproductive organs – and try to have fun, for god’s sake.
