I was having a conversation with my female married colleagues at work and we were discussing how different we are from the male species. Why does this surprise us all the time? The conclusion: men like to focus on one problem or issue at a time while women heroically juggle MANY things at once.   But hey, that’s nothing new and many biologists and psychologists and neurologists …so on… try to explain the reasoning behind this. For a quick summary, read Amber Hensley’s blog on the Masters of Healthcare which lists the 10 big differences between men and women’s brains.   In fact, women supposedly have more brain cells connecting the two sides of the brain. ”This latter finding provides physical evidence that supports the observation that men rely easily and more heavily on their left brain to solve one problem one step at a time. Women have more efficient access to both sides of their brain and therefore greater use of their right brain. Women can focus on more than one problem at one time and frequently prefer to solve problems through multiple activities at a time,”  says Dr. G Conner, a clinical & medical psychologist at Oregon Counseling. (If only women ruled the world…)

Then we started talking about our fathers and how different they are from our husbands or brothers – not in a bad way, just different. But hey! Guess what?! We are different from our mothers too. So, I guess we need to sit and really think of what is expected from our partners and make our expectations realistic.  Understanding that we, as women, are different too will help put things in perspective; maybe it’s time to find joy in the differences – biological or other- that make our partnership unique.