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Why it hurts

You wouldn’t have asked him to go if it wasn’t important to you. You know his time is valuable, too. So when he is so bold as to try to negotiate his way out of it, you feel like his comfort is more important to him than helping you out. And now if he does come along, you’ll know he doesn’t want to be there.

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Why it hurts

Anytime somebody says that you always do something it implies that there have been countless times they have not spoken up when you’ve upset them. This can send you into a tailspin wondering, “What else do I always do that you apparently never say anything about until you’re ready to explode?”

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Why it hurts

Do you men have any idea how many years and how much emotional energy we dedicate to psychologically analyzing and understanding our mothers very well so that we can absolutely avoid making the same mistakes they made? Sure, our moms have plenty of lovable qualities! But guys, you’ve never once said, “You’re acting just like your mother” when we’re doing something lovable. To say a woman is acting like her mother is to say she has overlooked a tremendous detail in her behavior. You can cause her to become unraveled.

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Why it hurts

All men mean by this (usually) is that they’re burnt out and don’t want to dedicate any energy to their entertainment that evening. But the way women interpret it is that we make things too complicated and that you haven’t enjoyed all of those home-made meatloaf and game nights we’ve organized. It makes us feel like when we put a nice evening together for you that it feels like an obligation instead of a joy.

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Why it’s hurtful

Men just don’t understand that clothes are not just clothes to us: they are aesthetic manifestations of who we are. We choose every item carefully to represent ourselves. More than that, clothes can be relics to us, like that little-knitted top we got at a music festival with our best friends in college. Clothes to us are what autographed baseballs are to them. Can you imagine if we said, “It’s just a football?”

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Why it’s hurtful

Everybody wants their partner to see them as brave and ambitious! Nobody wants to hear their partner call them “afraid.” And men need to understand that bouncing ideas off of friends and partner are a part of our process—it’s what we do before we go for it. It doesn’t mean we are scared.

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Why it’s hurtful

Even if the statement is true, gentlemen, women never want to hear this. In fact, we want to hear quite the opposite: we want to hear that you do feel like you need to have sex with us. Not because it takes the place of some emotional connection, but because we are that irresistible.