Reality bites

Every man expects one’s partner to be the best and almost good at everything. He wants her to be all that a man’s heart truly desires. For example, in terms of looks, body, attitude, behavior (both personal as well as social) etc. She should be the one who does things before being told. She would read him like a book, never nag him and be his best buddy at all the times. I have heard of married men, a few whom I know them so well (or prefer to think that way) are often happily married but have a girl buddy who is so close to their heart. Often these intimacies of friendship are developed during office hours, in due course of tight schedules and meeting deadlines. And there lies the wife either at home tending to the kids or at her office trying to make a career of her own, blissfully unaware of her husband’s growing “friendship”.

But has a man ever thought, whether he is the ideal man for his woman? Is he really the man of her dreams, her knight in shining armour? Expectations are every human being’s birth right. But that doesn’t grant a man more rights to have his expectations that a woman? If the positions are reversed would a husband welcome with open arms this new male friend of his wife/partner?

Are rules so different for men and women? Or we simply assume to be the silent sleeping partner in the relationship taking “subtly emotional insults” lying down?