Why women are often more mature than men

senior chef

senior chef

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As every one knows, females are often more emotionally mature than males.
WHY ?

In my opinion, females, from an early age, spend much more time with their mothers than boys do with their fathers. Even if both parents work.

Think about all of the female to female interactions. Mom dresses the girls up and fusses with their hair etc. Moreover, Mom gets daughters to help with laundry, cooking, washing dishes and other routine household chores. While this is happening, they talk. Not trying to be insulting, but everyone know full well that females LOVE to talk. This allows mom time to teach her daughters about all facets of life. As the daughter matures, the subjects eventually turn to those of romance and what she might expect when dating, marrying.

Ok, but now about the boys. Yes, on some occasions, boys do spend a little time alone with their father's, playing ball, fishing etc. However, the father generally confines talk to the ACTIVITY, and NOT about life's issues/problems and very, vary rarely about romance, dating, marriage. Moreover, and this is quite important, males, as a general rule, are much more quiet than females. (this began, I suspect, back in the eons when males hunted and silence was critical to success in hunting. Females, on the other hand, chatted away while gathering roots, tubers, fruits, berries etc. Those who know much about wild animals, understand that wild animals will move AWAY from human noise. Bears, for instance with move away if given a chance.The very last thing females wanted back eons ago, was to run into a bear.Even today, when hiking, fishing in bear country, it is always a good idea to wear small bells on the pants legs)

Thus, the stage is set. Young females are not only taught by their mother's but they overhear adult female conversations and learn form that.
Generally speaking, boys do NOT have such an opportunity to learn much of anything from male adults until much, much later in life
 

My daughter is extremely emotionally mature. She is empathetic and is always concerned about the welfare of other people.

When she was a small girl she loved to listen in to women's talk when they were gathered in our house. I had to advise her that if she wished to remain in the room during the women's conversations she should not offer any comment or opinions and that she must never repeat anything she heard. She did as she was told and learned much.

Today she is one of the wisest people in our family. She is going through a marriage breakup and is bending over backwards to see that her soon to be ex-husband will be well set up financially and that he remains part of the family. I do not know what part I may have played in her acquisition of wisdom but I do think I guided her towards mature independence. Her children, my grandchildren, have had the benefit of generations of women who raised their children lovingly and well.
 

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For the most part, the previous posts have mentioned stereotypical thoughts about younger women and women in general, not substantive data that would indicate women are more mature than men. Since we are speculating, I would suggest that women are less mature than men.
 
Most of my close relations, the girls were younger than me. Usually averaging about 2/3 years. I have heard that there is about a seven year difference in emotional maturity.? The worst relationship she was just 9 months younger. The best relationship that has lasted 30 years...Misa is a little over 6 years younger.
 
senior chef said:
In my opinion, females, from an early age, spend much more time with their mothers than boys do with their fathers. Even if both parents work.
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That may be true a general rule, but personally I spent more time with my dad. I watched him fix everything in the house, fix the car, do carpentry, etc. and asked endless questions about what he was doing. I thought what he did was much more interesting than what my mother did...clean house, do laundry, cook, sew, etc. As a result, I know quite a bit about building and fixing things and have, on occasion, fixed my own car if it wasn't too technical. That's also probably why I found boys my own age so immature and dated older guys. And since I didn't spend very much time with my mom, we didn't have the daughter/mother talks a lot of girls did.

I realize this isn't the point of this thread, but I just don't fit the stereotype.
 
rwb said:
For the most part, the previous posts have mentioned stereotypical thoughts about younger women and women in general, not substantive data that would indicate women are more mature than men. Since we are speculating, I would suggest that women are less mature than men.
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Suggest away. 🤣
 
Oh, I think the gist of what was said in the OP is just stereotype, but if you have a link to a reputable source that will back it up, I'd be glad to learn something new.

And for the record, my first wife and I met in high school, I was a sophomore, she was a junior. We married young and were together for almost 40 years before she passed away. Second wife was same age as me (well, technically she was 37 days older :ROFLMAO: and I never let her forget it) and we were married for over 10 years before she passed away..

YMMV
 
oldaunt said:
""when hiking, fishing in bear country, it is always a good idea to wear small bells on the pants legs)""

I'm told that grizzly bears call them 'dinner bells'.........
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Two men were walking in the forest when they crossed paths with a grizzly bear.
One man fell to his knees and started praying.
The 2nd man began tightening his boot laces.
The 1st man said, "Why are you tying your boot laces ? You know you can't outrun a bear?"
The 2nd man replied. "I don't have to outrun that bear.I just have to outrun you. "
 
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