If a woman wonders why a guy would think that she would want to watch him surf all day it’s probably because when the relaationship was fresh and young she probably did exactly that for hours at a time - adoringly so - and casually mentioned to him once, “I could watch you surf all day.” To which he thought, “Jackpot!!”

Here’s a tip. My girlfriend calling my friends and my mother almost ended our relationship. It feels like obsession. Besides my mom is astute, she would know that the end game was all about getting information. Mom’s are like that.

All men need time alone, even the most highly affectionate like me.

Guys hate girl talk. loathe it. they’d rather get a root canal, the best a woman can hope for is a man who pretends that he doesn’t and feigns interest exceptionally well. We’ll do exactly that because we love her, but girl talk is second only to shopping.

We love weighty books, but more often than not, the dissatisfied woman wants to put every book she owns in the bookcase and buy more simply to put it in and see how it performs under the exceptional undo burden. This is why men need time alone.

Men live and love to give, love to listen, live to help and serve. And serving and putting her first is the way we show we love her. More often than not, my experience is that sometimes women miss all the little things that we sacrifice to show our love for them and sometimes the opposite sex seeks can sometimes seek even more after we’re already overtaxed. In those cases, for the sake of the relationship, men seek a small time alone so we can come back and continue to serve joyfully.