Understanding Your Other Half

Navni Chawla explores how a man and a woman in a relationship can understand each other better by knowing each other's language, inner world, and psyche.

- Navni Chawla

It is a non-arguable fact that men and women have brains that are wired differently. Blame it on biology! Scientific studies reveal that there are brain differences in men and women, which translate into behavioural differences. Men and women might have different emotional, psychological, and physical responses to the same situation owing to their different brain structures, physiology, hormone-receptor interactions, genetic variables, and neural circuits. These are mostly sex-based differences. However, masculine and feminine traits are also very individualistic in nature and are influenced by many other factors such as social environment and constructs, gender distribution, patriarchal mindset, and the prevalent culture.

Broadly, men and women have stark differences in the way they think, feel, respond, personalise experiences, and perceive stimulations ke stress and pleasure, which are discrete for both. Hence it is natural for disagreements, conflicts, and disputes to arise in a relationship. This creates a need for both men and women to really understand each other for the relationship to succeed. Now, how does one do that?

Taking one step at a time