Both will be better served if you see the other as a “cell mate.” When you say, “I do” say it to your soulmate.
I don’t count many bad days with friends. Of course, there are life’s shitstorms—and friends are there in “good times and in bad.” (Kinda like wives). But friends—ones worth keeping and doing life’s time with—do their best not to cause shitstorms for each other.
To the women in our lives and the world: we mean you no harm whatsoever. There is no conspiracy here—nothing hidden. Quite the contrary—there is much good.
No movie in recent decades better captures men’s confused, complicated view of women than the brilliant “High Fidelity.”