Why are Women Unhappier?

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Kobra Khanoom
by Kobra Khanoom
09-Jul-2008
 

I have revived Kobra Khanoom’s advice column because the older I get the more ups and downs I experience, the more like her I become. So if you need a naneh to help you with a problem ask Kobra Khanoom and she will try her best to answer your question. It is, after all, up to you to listen. Email me at MsKobra@yahoo.com

Question: Do women need more love and attention than men? Too often I see wives who look sad. They are worn down and you can see it in their spirit  and body language. Is it lack of love and sex? Is it repetition of  daily activities? Is it the inevitable product of long-term  relationships and ageing? What can these women do to lift their  spirits?

Kobra Khanoom's Answer: Funny how I am starting to get some more philosophical, rather than the usual personal, questions. This one from a reader sounds better suited for a women-studies college essay. But I am addicted to answering questions so let me give it a shot:

I think that if you look carefully you will see the same signs of fatigue and low-spiritedness in men. Only men feel more responsible for their own happiness so they tend to hide their disappointment with their lives. Women blame men, men blame themselves.

Men think their pleasure is their own responsibility while women expect to be handed it on a platter. Women need to learn to seek their pleasure. That I think more than any qualitative factor is the difference and why you see more unhappy women than men. Women are also just freer to show their unhappiness and feel less responsible for it. Men, poor things, still tend to hide their feelings.

I think also often people are unhappy because they expect too much from their lives. This comes from a certain arrogance that we Iranians particularly share. We think we are so smart, so great that our lives should be better. We think we deserve better than the rest. It is a sometimes productive but mostly paralysing sense of entitlement that Iranian woman especailly possess. I think men and women can be happier if they expect less, spend more time trying to satisfy each other and take the persuit of pleasure more seriously. No one is going to just give you a good time you have to plan for it and work at it. Most important is to approach one's own goals, life, happiness and need for pleasure with a sense of humor. Who says life has to be "happy". I will settle with "interesting".

Kobra Khanoon
MsKobra@yahoo.com

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thread, because my presence on it led to Natalia choosng to publcily divulge very personal information here about my current private life, containing lies and involving someone else on this website, And I have decided I do not want to be party to this in any way shape or form.

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I also asked Jahanshah to delete the entire exchange as private information but he did not.

So I've done the best I can. That is all.

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Rosie T.

dlete

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delete


Nadias

Ms. Robin

by Nadias on

No one and nothing is worth dying for. I have deleted the poem.

 

 

 

 


Rosie T.

Nadia , remember? khaamoosh?

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Nadias

Kobra

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My apologies for all the drama on your thread. If I had known that she was going to react this way, I would never have mentioned that he was on your thread.

It wasn't until she found out that she reacted this way.

I still don't think that it excuses her behavior. As we all make our own choices in life. With every choice we make there are consequences that are good or bad.

 

 


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Nadias take your freedom and

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Nadias take your freedom and stay happy!


Rosie T.

Kobra, I am sorry about the last e-mail I sent )unverified

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saying you authorized the Spanish post from Natalia, and saying what this suggested about you .  It was because her subject line saying she'd told you she was going to it and you knew about it and you knew  could only be read as saying you'd authorized it under the circumstances, I am going to ask jj to delete my reply to her because actually it is defamatory since you didn't know before she sent it and never gave permission. I am going to ask jj to deelete it because I sent it as a golldfish (I was in a hurry and forgot I hadn't logged in) so I can't edit out the defamatory section.

 


Rosie T.

N, your subject line: She knows I sent her an e-mail telling her

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would do this, would is future of past, meanss you sent in your post  AFTER you asked her, your saying thios as an explanation implies she said it was ok, otherwise your telling me that was meaningless. This is obvious,r else you wouldn't have bothered to tell me about it, it would be meaningless. As I gather it is. I was not projecting. I was READING your words. If she didn't tell you it was okay, there was o point in telling me abut it, it makes no sense. . That's all I have to say to you.


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ROSIE UNVERIFIED: I don't

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ROSIE UNVERIFIED:

I don't think Kobra said that casual sex was always fine but that casual sex is always fun. Just a clarification...go on please, we're watching...


Nadias

Ms. Robin

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No one and nothing is worth dying for. I deleted the poem.


Nadias

delete

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Rosie T.

N., this is not helpful

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First of all it's totally inappropriate to have a discussion on someone else's blog in a language they probably don'tunderstand (or on most blogs in any language other than English or Persian, except for one's own).

Second of all many people here read Spanish anyway.  PLEASE copy your post and re-send it to me by e-mail and replace it with an English-language post appropriate for the community and the blogger.. I haven't read your post but I've scanned it and I got the point immediately because I already KNOW the point and I've already thought about it quite a bit. .And I will answer you.  But not right here, right now, as things stand.

Oh Natalia, my Mexican Jumping Bean.  Most of the time you jump...to the very HEIGHTS of wisdom....

and other times, other times....I don't know WHERE you're jumping to. I simply do not know. Could it be off a cliff and taking me with you? En espa~nol? :o)

Con mucho amor,

Rosita

The Cliffhanger

PS DON'T CLICK ON REPLY. U NO Y....


Nadias

Ms. Robin

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No one and nothing is worth dying for. I have deleted the poem.

 

 

 


Rosie T.

Dear Problem Lady:

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DEAR WOMEN OF THE WORLD:  Let's all just go out and get laid because I know exactly HOW you are and WHAT you need to do.  You all want your sexuality served to you on silver platters like crumpets and I KNOW the solution is bed-surfing, And I KNOW that if you just do it enough, that "right guy" is sure to pop up on some semen-soaked pillow somewhere.  Try it! You'll see!  I do it all the time and so do my nieces.--Problem Lady

Dear Problem Lady--I have a problem with that .  A SERIOUS problem. --Rosie

Dear Rosie--You know wha your problem REALLY is? Your problem is you wrote me this post about your problem, and it's so long it proves you have no life.  And  you know what the solution is?  Just go out and get laid. Like me and my nieces.--Problem Lady PS You need to develop a sense of humor.

Dear Problem Lady:  My god, you're right!  You're always right!   And you know absolutely EVERYTHING about EVERYBODY!  I admire those qualities in a person. May I call you KKK from now on? -, Rosie  PS  I'll try to work on developing a sense of humor. 

 

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Kobra, is it possible,is it HUMANNLY possible, that you did not understand that the "damage" I was referring to in my last post was potential damage to young readers who might be "inspired" by my inital account of my swashbuckling sexual history, as Natlalia warned me?  Is it POSSIBLE that you REALLY thought I meant I am trying to undo the damage done to MYSELFi n my life?  Is this possibele? Or am I dreaming?


Rosie T.

Maz, why love America?

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Half of it happened in Europe.

Love Europe.

Rosie


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Kobra Khanoom jan: One can

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Kobra Khanoom jan: One can use the same study and argue in defense of your original premise. Here is the formulation of the hypothesis:

Since men are not as smart as women; therefore, they are happier because they don't know any better"...lol

I thoroughly enjoy all your blogs and I'm glad you're back!

Kobra Khanoom: Do you ever trade your place with a man??? I don't thinks so...no woman will...hahahaha


Kobra Khanoom

great comments

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Dear Bajehnagh Naghi,

That is great insight. Thank you for reading, understanding and commenting.

Dear abc,

I sure hope you are right,it sure sounds true to me. That is great. I will check out your link. Thank you.

Dear Rosie or Robin Khanoom,

you need to take it easy not worry about 'damage' this 'damage' that. I tell my kids, "if you think you have had a hard life think of the Fritzl offspring! whatever your sexual cv and the barometer of pain endured during a passionate life-time you need to have a sense of humor and have some fun. Maybe start by spending more time offline and living a little.

KK


Jahanshah Javid

Mester Abarmard

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I'm not gonna get into that old fight... Farsi, Persian... all good.


Abarmard

Mr. Jahanshah Javid

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Do you mean Persian? "When you use Farsi words..."

;)


bajenaghe naghi

kobra khanoom jan

by bajenaghe naghi on

very interesting article. thank you. i was just thinking about what you say and i thought i throw this idea into the ring. men enjoy and become happy in loving a woman and women enjoy and become happy in being loved. if this is true, then a woman is dependent and her happiness rests on the man to love her and show his affection which make the woman more vulnerable and more prone to unhappiness if he withdraws his love and affection.


Mazloom

In that case

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I changed my mind about what I said before.


Rosie T.

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I don't think that women are

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I don't think that women are unhappier than men at all. I bet you if you do a survey, you will find out that men are much unhappier than women.

Men are socialized/internalized not to express their emotions from an early age; "Boys don't Cry" and so on.

Men are much unhappier than women because the society and women require much more of them while they are not as smart as women.(see brain organization and differential anatomy of Corups Callosum in women and men). This area of the brain in women is larger; hence, more nerural networking and communication between the two sides of the brain; hence, women are more intuitive; feel deeper, have a wider range of repetoire/perspective of things and so on.

//www.cerebromente.org.br/n11/mente/eisntein/...

I will never want to be a man anywhere in the world...even in Iran. Men are insecure and very fragile creatures.


Nadias

Hopefully....

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it will help the younger generations to understand that there is more to just having sex. I know that you were concerned that the "Just go out and get laid" blog might wrongly influence the teenagers that surf this web site  

Lord knows you are the expert on sexual matters. You know better than anyone the level of damage that it can do to a young heart. In reality many will do whatever they intended to do anyway. If one heart is spared then it was a success

 

solh va doosti/paz a vosotros/paix et amitié

ناتاليا

 

 


Rosie T.

NATALIA' I'M UNDOING THE DAMAGE. NOW CASUAL SEX FOR

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MANY PEOPLE IMHO AFTER HALF A CENTURY OF OBSERVING AND ACTIVITY IS NOT GOOD.

DARE I GENERALIZE AND SAY MOST PEOPLE WHEN I HAVE ACCUSED KOBRA OF GENERALIZATIONS? NO I DAREN'T. SO I WON'T.

BUT I THINK ANYONE WHO MAY HAPPEN TO GIVE A DAMN A BOUT WHAT I THINK WILL GET MY DRIFT NOW.

THOSE WERE MY EXPERIENCES BELOW.  I WANTED TO PROVE A POINT.  THE POINT IS I THINK I KNOW MEN IN SOME WAYS VERY WELL.  MAYBE EVEN AS WELL AS KOBRA HERSELF. I PROVED IT.  NOW I'M CLARIFYING MY OTHER POINT:

FOR MANY PEOPLE IMHO CASUAL SEX IS A FRITTERING AWAY OF ENERGY, A WAY OF FLEEING FROM ONESELF, IT'S OFTEN  DDOMED TO HURT SOMEONE, AND WHEN IT LEADS TO A RELATINSHIP PEOPLE OFTEN FIND THEMSELVES "LOCKED" INTO A RELATIONSHIP THAT WASN"T REALLY RIGHT FOR ThEM TO BEGIN WITH.

Is that enough, Nadia?  You're a mom.  Do you thhink I need to add MORE disclaimers to make myself MORE clear?  please say no please say this is enough....pleeeease...ibut iwon't change the first post...that i won't do.... that's who I WAS. it's the TRUTH.

and the truth shall set us free.


Nadias

¡Aye! Rosita

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 Sadly, some of the damage may not be undone. You just don't see the levels of damage with your previous post on sexual exploits. I guess like it has been said "we live and learn"

Best

solh va doosti/paz a vosotros/paix et amitié

ناتاليا

 

 


Parthian

They are unhappier...

by Parthian on

I don't have scientific statistics on this, just personal experience. But most women I have met have extremely unrealistic expectations from life. Most feel entitled to everything "perfect" and obviously real world does not work like that, so they are perpetually disappointed in men, in their lives, at work, and even with their friends.


Rosie T.

PS. DISCLAIMER. I have just been informed by a young

by Rosie T. on

goldfish that there are actually still some people on this site who try to read everything I write.  So here is my DISCLAIMER about my post below:

I DO NOT ADVOCATE ANY ACTION I HAVE EVER TAKEN, ANY EXPERIENCE I HAVE EVER HAD OR ANY DECISION I HAVE EVER MADE FOR ANY SINGLE OTHER PERSON ON THIS WEBSITE OR ON THIS PLANET.

The sexual experiences I spoke of below have brought me  some joy and A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN as well.

And I have come to undertand, at the tender age of 48, that  "just going out and getting laid" can be, for many people, women AND men..gay AND straight...at any age...psychologically and spiritually (let's not even mention physically)...

simply...

dangerous.

Rosie


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Different sensors

by Mehri2 (not verified) on

Women feel more. They feel sadness more deeply and they feel joy more intensely than men do. That's all. It's true that women feel overwhelmed with multiple responsbilities at home and outside and (in the case of Iranian women) in extended family obligations. But they also find a lot of joy in the same things which are usually lost on men.