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I don’t like the way people claim that women are sensitive in a negative way. We are, in fact, sensitive, but in a good way. We are deeply away are shifts in moods, energy, and dynamics. We are intuitive, and can feel major problems coming on at the first almost imperceptible sign. I’ll admit that we are sensitive, but it isn’t in the way people often say we are (irrational, reactionary, unable to take a joke etc.). If I can be real, in my experience, men can actually behave in those unfortunate ways just as much as women can. That negative type of sensitivity isn’t unique to any one gender—that’s just a personality type. But I do feel that the useful type of sensitivity in which we can predict and determine changes in dynamic before they occur is uniquely female. Which is why, sometimes, we distance ourselves from our partners for what seems like no reason. But we have good reason. Here are the top reasons women emotionally pull away.
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You aren’t supporting her in her career
Supporting her in her career doesn’t just mean asking how her day was and remaining silent until she’s done talking. It means engaging. It means having conversations with her in which she bounces ideas off of you and analyzes changes happening in her own understanding about her field of work. A partner who loves her job doesn’t want to leave it at the office and she doesn’t want you to pretend she left it there.
