What is Reddit's opinion of Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti: Understanding and Delighting in Your Differences?

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Heh - there's a faith-based book titled, Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti that helped us frame things and understand each other. The spaghetti noodles touch each other everywhere on the plate shows how everything is connected to a woman, while the man compartmentalizes and focuses on one thing at a time (the squares on the waffle). And sometimes we can zone in on a completely empty compartment and literally be thinking about nothing. But then we have the woman talking about all these different connected things, and the man is trying desperately to hop around in and out of different compartments trying to keep up...

So all I have to say to my wife is that she's spaghetti-ing too much for me sometimes and she gets it and slows down the connections. 😜

I was listening to a radio show and there was a couple counselor on talking about the way men and women think. The way she said it made a lot of sense to me so maybe it will make sense to you too.

She said men think like waffles, women think like spaghetti.

To expand on that, men typically think in more compartmentalized way. They get into a thought and they are there, they don't usually think outside what they are focusing on so it can lead to issues in relationships when a man is trying to focus on something and a woman will ask about something out side that pocket. The man has to take some time to 'move' to another part of the waffle.

She explained that women typically think in a more entangled way. When you hear a story from a women, many times it may feel like the beginning of the story isn't going to lead to a conclusion because woman's thoughts are more 'knotted' and intertwined with each other. She stated an example where in dating, odd ball things will remind them of their partner because of some long thought process that is intertwined with thoughts about her relationship.

I think I got that right, it's been a few years since I've heard it but it made sense. If you are curious to hear it better explained, there was a website that explains it better: https://rockyourmarriage.org/men-like-waffles-women-like-spaghetti/

and a book by the couple I heard on the radio: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0736919619/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=andreaforten-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0736919619&linkId=abacf79d5f0e8afb535541bfa4ca0be3

https://www.amazon.com/Men-Like-Waffles-Women-Spaghetti-Understanding/dp/0736919619 I heard it first from this book, it's just an analogous way of making differences in psychological processing more simple that I like.

People are reading this and assuming it's always true...

Used to be the case that this was simply accepted- look at Christian books like "men are like Waffles, women are like spaghetti", for instance.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Men-Are-Like-Waffles-Women-Spaghetti/dp/0736919619