On an emotional scale most women are somewhere in between children and men.
They are emotionally more stable than children but less stable than men.
If you remember this it can help when trying to understand them.
The muslims have this figured out when they say the court testimony of 2 women is equal to that of one man.
No it's not that women's emotionally unstable. It's women think everything from an emotional POINT OF VIEW. Things to a man is just a thing but to a woman, it ALWAYS has some emotional connotation and meaning to it. I will give you a simple example: Going out for dinner. To a man, going out to dinner is just to get a meal, getting his stomach filled instead of eating at home. But to a woman, going out could be getting away from it all, a whole new experience, the man taking care of her, caring about her... Women KNOWS that men don't feel things from an emotional point of view as much as women but the fact that the man went out of his way to try to think from the perspective is what women appreciates. It's the gesture and the thought that counts, not necessarily the actual thing. Men always want to give women tangible things and women want that too but it's more of the thoughts BEHIND the tangible things that women treasure more.
Of course every woman is different, some more emotional than others but if you can bear in mind this, it makes things a bit easier.
