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Unit 2 Men V.S. (against) Women 男女有别 Preview You were once involved in an intimate relationship with the opposite sex; if not, just think about your parents or other couples you are familiar with. Smart as you are, you may have noticed that no relationship can avoid frustration or conflict, no matter how hard the two involved try to understand and compromise. Given their diverse patterns of feeling, communicating, and responding, there is reason to believe that men and women belong to different species (though they are both human beings), and then everything can be explained. Text (Let)Men Go to Their Caves and Women (go to their) Talk1 男女顺其自然 John Gray [1] One of the biggest differences between men and women is how they cope with (deal with) stress. Men become increasingly focused and withdrawn while women become increasingly overwhelmed (defeated) and emotionally involved. At these times (At these moments), a mans needs for feeling good ( 良好的感觉) are different from a womans (needs). He feels better by solving problems while she feels better by talking about problems. Not understanding and accepting these differences creates (leads to) unnecessary friction (conflict) in our relationships (marriages). Lets look at a common (常见的) example. [2] When Tom comes home, he wants to relax and unwind (=relaxed) by quietly reading the news. He is stressed (bothered) by the unsolved problems of his day and finds relief (解脱-relieve) through forgetting them. [3] His wife, Mary, also wants to relax from her stressful day. She, however, wants to find (relieve-) relief by talking about the problems of her day. The tension slowly building (s