Another difference I see between guys and women is that we WILL cut a dickhead out of our lives immediately if they annoy us. Women seem to have this very sweet but misplaced sense of loyalty to "friends," it's like they all still want to be friends with losers they knew in high school or whatever, or useless relatives that just gossip behind their backs. I've never had any patience for this and I am TRYING through these recent episodes my wife has suffered to show her "See, i told you so!" In a nice way.....as in, cut the bitches out of your life and don't look back.
Are men just more naturally loners, whereas women are always "networking" with friendships all over the place? Maybe that's the problem? I dunno.
But it's very hard for women who buck traditional female stereotypes by owning a business and also not having kids. Men don't get crap for this as much as women do, and it's kinda weird how deep this shit goes. Like third cousins once removed, women my wife hasn't seen since she was five years old, posting opinions about her life on Facebook. You don't see the men I know in my family doing this about me. Women either. It's like, if you have a womb, you're expected to just automatically "love" everybody and network and be friends and play nice, and if you don't, you suffer massive ostracism from your entire tribe.
I'm trying to teach her that you should never agree to be a member of any group which would have you as a member -- and also that just because someone is family or an old college friend or whatever doesn't mean that they're not psychotic hormone-ranging breeder assholes now that deserve 0% of her time or attention. I hope she gets there!