His Game, Her Rules

I never promise you a rose garden, but I really did, didn't I!.

That side eye look speaks volumes about what
she believes is  coming out of his mouth!

‘When did I make you a promise I had no intention of keeping?’ and she response with "maybe more often than I care to remember!"

If men would learn to not make promises, just to try and impress women, they would be better off. I have grown up around women that were mostly strong and self-sufficient. So I learned that women do not always need men for what they can do for themselves, these days. However, men often put themselves in touch positions, as poor negotiators, where they will start off promising to do things for women they have no intentions of keeping. Why put that added pressure one’s selves. Stick to telling her about things that are realistic. NOT fairy tales... the truth, as time goes by at a pace that you are not able to keep up with and your window of delivering is often closing faster than you expect. I've learned that if your dreams that includes the woman you try to impress,  then she might get her heart set on those dreams becoming her reality also, too. We men often don’t think about how we disappoint a woman when we tell them about trips to Paris, Rio, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Dubai etc. or the House in the suburbs or a Penthouse in a major city. These all very impressing dreams, obtainable if you have plans on HOW you will accomplish them on a timeline that will allow both of you to enjoy them. But often we get carried away. And start talking too much and hoping that she will forget when we can’t deliver. Even though she might have been initially impressed by the things you are talked about will become B.S. in time because you had not calculated all the factors that could lead up to you not being able to deliver.

Look your situation carefully, before going out on a limb. Your jobs are not as stable as it was in the beginning, so you are projecting as if all will be going as well as you thought. You may have assumed that you would get that promotion by a certain point and which would have allowed you to deliver on your promises. But things don’t always happen the way you planned. It’s OK to share your dreams with you lady but always let her know they are dreams, that have factors and conditions beyond your control. You might have been like a Tiger in your early years but being able to make the grade after a few setbacks are hard to do. Your strengths may not be what it once was, as your timeline keeps slipping. Let’s not put that added pressure on ourselves.  

Example: in talking to a young  guy, who had big dreams, of traveling to distant cities some of them I just mentioned. He took flying-lesson but never completed his certifications for becoming a commercial pilot. He thought it was going to be easy. His girlfriend pictures him taking her on these trips. But his limitations caught up with him and she was very disappointed… in him and his lack of ability to deliver. They had many arguments about the things she would remind him of, that he did not, could not deliver on. So he got sick of her nagging him about his limitations that he was a dreamer that had no intentions of delivering on any of them. She forgot about the good things he did in the beginning. He was using them as his argument when she brought up the things he did not deliver on.

Final thoughts
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