I'm glad I've realized that at the age of 22 lol.
The thing about men is that they can fall in love, like head-over-heels in love - but they won't show it and they will rarely proclaim it. And they don't know that women pay attention to details, so if they say something or do something that makes them look as if they don't love you - we will assume that they don't, and they won't even pick up on that.

We speak different languages, we work differently and we think differently - but ultimately we both want the same thing. I think it takes longer for men to come to terms with the idea of settling down and such; women are ready for that as soon as we hit puberty lol, but men can act like 15 year olds until they're 40.

We cannot expect men to know or understand what we want/need, it's SO frustrating at times - and it doesn't matter how many times you tell your man; he still won't understand it.

My current relationship is really... vague. I don't know where we stand, he says he loves me - I love him, but when I ask him where he wants this to go he just avoids the question. It wasn't until I said that I couldn't deal with this anymore, I couldn't deal with his behavior, I couldn't deal with the not knowing - and that I had decided to give up and walk out the door - that he actually got it. And since then, he's improved a lot. Sometimes men need that kick in the butt to understand how serious it is to you.