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6 Things Men Always Get Wrong About Women, According to a Clinical Sexologist

When a woman feels genuinely heard and emotionally met, that openness becomes erotic. Consider that your incentive.

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Men and women connect differently, and most people don’t think about that until they’re already in the middle of a fight about a text message that was never really about a text message.

Claudia Six, Ph.D., a clinical sexologist with over 34 years of experience and author of Erotic Integrity, laid out six of the most common places where that disconnect lives, writing in Psychology Today. The hetero model, for the sake of this piece.

Your Silence Reads as Withdrawal

Her brain doesn’t do well with unexplained silence. Yours might be perfectly content to sit in it, but hers is already three scenarios deep into what it might mean. A quick “still thinking, still here” costs you........

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