The Harm Of Asymmetrical Relationships
A symmetrical committed bonded relationship between egalitarian partners is based upon the combination of physical, emotional and intellectual intimacy in balanced reciprocity.
In asymmetrical relationships one partner has privileges and the other has disadvantages.
There are three kinds of asymmetry due to an imbalance, that is often very painful for a woman:
1. Physical asymmetry.
A man has a polygamous harem.
A man cheats on his wife.
2. Emotional asymmetry.
One partner offers and needs emotional exclusivity of reciprocally being the most important and most significant person on earth for the other. The partner refuses to concede such exclusivity. He is only available on the condition of sharing his emotional ties with outsiders, often his children and/or his ex-partners.
3. Intellectual asymmetry.
Physical and emotional asymmetry are easily recognizable, because other persons are involved as intruders and obstacles. Intellectual asymmetry is more subtle, less easily recognizable. It can be very damaging, even though the man may be convinced to be a considerate and moral person.
Intellectual asymmetry is the consequence of attitudes concerning the perception of the role, qualities and place for the partner in life. The disadvantaged partner offers and expects more, than what the other is interested and motivated to give and to share.
Men are generally prone to cause asymmetry in relationships because of their subconscious animal instincts. Too often a man feels justified to initiate physical involvement with a woman by nothing better than the mere infatuation with her body. He even is ignorant, that this is not, what the woman wants.
A symmetrical committed bonded relationship between egalitarian partners is based upon the combination of physical, emotional and intellectual intimacy in balanced reciprocity.
In asymmetrical relationships one partner has privileges and the other has disadvantages.
There are three kinds of asymmetry due to an imbalance, that is often very painful for a woman:
1. Physical asymmetry.
A man has a polygamous harem.
A man cheats on his wife.
2. Emotional asymmetry.
One partner offers and needs emotional exclusivity of reciprocally being the most important and most significant person on earth for the other. The partner refuses to concede such exclusivity. He is only available on the condition of sharing his emotional ties with outsiders, often his children and/or his ex-partners.
3. Intellectual asymmetry.
Physical and emotional asymmetry are easily recognizable, because other persons are involved as intruders and obstacles. Intellectual asymmetry is more subtle, less easily recognizable. It can be very damaging, even though the man may be convinced to be a considerate and moral person.
Intellectual asymmetry is the consequence of attitudes concerning the perception of the role, qualities and place for the partner in life. The disadvantaged partner offers and expects more, than what the other is interested and motivated to give and to share.
Men are generally prone to cause asymmetry in relationships because of their subconscious animal instincts. Too often a man feels justified to initiate physical involvement with a woman by nothing better than the mere infatuation with her body. He even is ignorant, that this is not, what the woman wants.
For a woman with self-respect, this is not a sufficient reason to agree and comply. She allows him access to her body, only when she not only considers him as suitable to be her companion, with whom she wants to share everything for the rest of her life, but when she also is convinced, that this is reciprocal.
Unfortunately, women are often mislead and mistaken. Instead of becoming appreciated egalitarian companions, they get themselves into the situation of onesided and very painful disadvantages.
Even if a man commits to be monogamous, and even if he forces no intruders upon her as a source of physical and emotional asymmetry, this does not automatically ascertain intellectual intimacy and symmetry. The woman wants a companion based upon equality, she wants to share everything with him. But If he is satisfied with her nightly availability in bed, while she is of not other significance for his life and he has not wish to share anything except her body, he is the one, who gets, what he wants, but this is far from what she wants and needs.
Unfortunately, women are often mislead and mistaken. Instead of becoming appreciated egalitarian companions, they get themselves into the situation of onesided and very painful disadvantages.
Even if a man commits to be monogamous, and even if he forces no intruders upon her as a source of physical and emotional asymmetry, this does not automatically ascertain intellectual intimacy and symmetry. The woman wants a companion based upon equality, she wants to share everything with him. But If he is satisfied with her nightly availability in bed, while she is of not other significance for his life and he has not wish to share anything except her body, he is the one, who gets, what he wants, but this is far from what she wants and needs.
The one, who wants less is always the one, who has the power to dominate and to enforce his conditions. When he only wants her body, this is a form of asymmetry, that makes her helpless and defenseless.
The woman in an asymmetrical relationship is powerless to make it symmetrical. When a man only perceives her body and is oblivious and in denial of all her invisible qualities, then there is nothing, that she can do. No matter, how much she deserves being appreciated and valued as an equal, significant, trusted companion, she has no power to get, what she needs and wants, if the man is not able to perceive, notice and value her qualities.
When the woman wants to share decisions, but the man does instead, what he wants and forces his decisions upon her, he has the power to do so, but she has no power to stop him. She suffers.
When the woman wants to share all innermost feelings with a mindmate, he has the power to refuse to communicate. She has no power to make him listen nor to make him tell her, what he feels and thinks. She suffers.
When the woman wants to share time and activities with the man, but he prefers to spend his time without her, he has the power to go and leave her behind, whenever he wants. She has no power to hold him back and make him stay with her. She suffers.
When the woman wants to be mutually significant and to be the most important person, but the man treats her as a commodity and as insignificant, he has the power to do so, but she is powerless to defend herself. She suffers.
An egalitarian woman with self-respect suffers humiliation, indignity, degradation, disrespect, devaluation, depreciation, when she is powerless in an asymmetrical relationship. When the circumstances make her powerless, she cannot fight for what is out of her reach and not obtainable.
But suffering without fighting does not imply mental acquiescence, even though it may superficially appear as if she would accept her disadvantages. The man, satisfied in an asymmetrical relationship, is often oblivious and in denial. Her silent experiencing of outrage and indignation cause devastation, but the suffering is hidden behind resignation and apparent submission. The relationship is toxic and the woman has no other way out except leaving the relationship.
So men have the power to choose wisely, if they are aware of this, before it is too late:
The woman in an asymmetrical relationship is powerless to make it symmetrical. When a man only perceives her body and is oblivious and in denial of all her invisible qualities, then there is nothing, that she can do. No matter, how much she deserves being appreciated and valued as an equal, significant, trusted companion, she has no power to get, what she needs and wants, if the man is not able to perceive, notice and value her qualities.
When the woman wants to share decisions, but the man does instead, what he wants and forces his decisions upon her, he has the power to do so, but she has no power to stop him. She suffers.
When the woman wants to share all innermost feelings with a mindmate, he has the power to refuse to communicate. She has no power to make him listen nor to make him tell her, what he feels and thinks. She suffers.
When the woman wants to share time and activities with the man, but he prefers to spend his time without her, he has the power to go and leave her behind, whenever he wants. She has no power to hold him back and make him stay with her. She suffers.
When the woman wants to be mutually significant and to be the most important person, but the man treats her as a commodity and as insignificant, he has the power to do so, but she is powerless to defend herself. She suffers.
An egalitarian woman with self-respect suffers humiliation, indignity, degradation, disrespect, devaluation, depreciation, when she is powerless in an asymmetrical relationship. When the circumstances make her powerless, she cannot fight for what is out of her reach and not obtainable.
But suffering without fighting does not imply mental acquiescence, even though it may superficially appear as if she would accept her disadvantages. The man, satisfied in an asymmetrical relationship, is often oblivious and in denial. Her silent experiencing of outrage and indignation cause devastation, but the suffering is hidden behind resignation and apparent submission. The relationship is toxic and the woman has no other way out except leaving the relationship.
So men have the power to choose wisely, if they are aware of this, before it is too late:
They can make a relationship symmetrical by giving a woman, what she really needs and wants: The respect and appreciation for a person in a balance of giving and sharing physical, emotional and intellectual intimacy.
They can enforce an asymmetrical relationship upon a woman, profit from this, as long as possible, until they have devastated one woman and move on to the next.
Women have only the choice of prevention, they can refuse to enter a relationship, when the risk of asymmetry is recognizable. Once they have made the mistake of entering an asymmetrical relationship, they are doomed. They cannot make it symmetrical against the will of a man, who prefers the benefits of the asymmetry.
Women have only the choice of prevention, they can refuse to enter a relationship, when the risk of asymmetry is recognizable. Once they have made the mistake of entering an asymmetrical relationship, they are doomed. They cannot make it symmetrical against the will of a man, who prefers the benefits of the asymmetry.
