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A woman always worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets wife. This older adage rings true to me in several ways. What do you think? What is it in a woman's DNA that encourages her to strive for marriage and the biological need to have a child or two? What is it in a man's DNA that encourages him to be on the lookout for multiple sexual opportunities, to leave his towel and other dirty clothes laying all over the house, and to be right all the time? Understanding men and women will never be as easy as reading a book or a blog. And at the same time we seem to think we know everything about them.

But if we did understand men and women as well as we would like to think we do we would have no need for the hundreds of seminars, thousands of relationship counselors, and tens of thousands of books on this subject. It is no surprise that most of the counselors and authors writing about this subject are women. Not that men don't care, but 'right now there's work to do'. Understanding the root causes of men and women's behavior requires that we travel back hundreds of thousands of years to when these traits literally were being programmed into our DNA.

Understanding the very different roles that men and women evolved into, and why, is important to