What we learned from the Great Male Survey about Romance…

couple romance.jpg We were certainly intrigued yesterday when we saw the article about the AskMen.com’s Great Male Survey 2010 Edition.

There were a lot of interesting “aha’s” from the results but what really got our attention was the comparison between this survey of men and Cosmo’s Great Female Survey about romance.

Drum roll please…

Here’s one finding that will blow your socks off…

According to the article, “Nearly 40% of women report that their boyfriends or husbands are “not very often” or “never” romantic, yet 75% of men claim that they are romantic consistently.”

So if this is what women and men think, what’s going on here?

Who’s got it right and who’s fooling themselves?

Here are a few of our thoughts about romance and the differences between the sexes…

Here’s a big light bulb moment…

Both men and women have different ideas of romance and what it means to be romantic.

While a man may think that taking his partner out to dinner or giving her flowers on special holidays is romantic, a woman may have a totally different idea of what romance is to her.

We’re certainly not saying that all men are slow in catching on (if at all) when it comes to romance but we are saying that after doing our own surveys, many women want more romance from their men.

What kind of romance do they want? It may surprise you.

Here are a few things they told us they’d like their men to do in the romance department…

1. She wants to spend quality time with him and have him act like he really enjoys it.

2. She wants him to “claim” her in public–letting others know that she’s with him.

3. She wants to see little signs throughout the day that he loves her–text messages, emails, hugs…

4. She’d like more passionate kisses.

5. She’d like him to take charge every now and then to arrange a date for the two of them, including getting a baby-sitter.

Wow–it’s no wonder men think they’re being romantic when a woman doesn’t.

The trick is for both of them to get on the same page as to what romance means to each of them.

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