All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. I look around for the waiter. Where is he? I'm starving and thirsty, and he's ignoring us. She narrows her eyes and gives a look that says, If I had guacamole, I'd dump it down your pants.
From her perspective, I get it: I'd deliberately changed the subject and avoided eye contact, all because I didn't want to meet her parents. But here's the irony. I really did want to meet her parents.
We'd been dating a couple of months. It was time. But I wasn't ready to tackle the issue head-on. Sound familiar? I'm not saying I wasn't being an idiot I was , but misunderstandings like this happen all the time between men and women. Guys want to say one thing, but we end up saying, or doing, another. So how can you learn to read us right? I consulted a few experts to help unscramble some common scenarios. What it means: Probably nothing.
How could what you're saying compete with The Walking Dead? I mean, zombies! As annoying as this common male behavior may be, "we all need a little zone-out time when we get home," says Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph. Men need to unwind too and often do it in front of the TV—or even in the car. I had a client whose commute went from 20 minutes to five minutes.
He was miserable. He had lost his decompression time. How to deal: Does he do this every night? If so, for God's sake call him on it. But if it's sporadic, give him his downtime and try again when the zombies are dead. What it means: Simply that he's male.
