Monday, September 24, 2012
What's left behind?
I stumbled upon this illustration by Joe Wierenga a few weeks ago and it's popped back into my thoughts every day since. Sometimes several times a day. Today - I can't get it out of my head. Haunting me, I suppose you could say. It's made me think about how men and women deal differently with relationships ending .... and I love it. More about Joe at his website here.
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So, my immediate reaction is 'this is so true'... the male is me. Could it be that at the age of 70 or 80 after so many relationships that a man will be empty, but a woman will be heartless? Or does this picture say that the only way for both to heal is to make-up and get back together? Or does it say that men and women are both incomplete without each other? How do some couples remain friends after a breakup? I could never do that. Is it a way for them to minimize their inevitable loss?
Or perhaps this has just been his experience with romance. I think this is true at a young age but as we grow older that energy shifts in favor of men. More options become available to us than women. You go through the point where many women want you but now you won't reciprocate and they find that in many odd ways mysterious, sexy, fascinating. I guess each takes a shot at the other at diff stages of their life:one when she most beautiful the other when he's reached substantial amount of resources.
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