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- Marcus Nikos
- Jun 15
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Why Women Don’t Mean What They Say
you've seen him before The man smiling
while dying Not on a battlefield Not in
some dramatic tragedy No he's right in
front of you carrying grocery bags
fixing the Wi-Fi nodding along while a
woman disrespects him in his own home He
thinks he's being mature patient the man
she said she wanted but he doesn't
realize it He's being erased one It's
fine at a time And the most brutal part
he volunteered for it Now here's the
question no man dares to ask out loud
Why do women never seem to want what
they say they want She says she wants a
good man so why does she chase the one
who ignores her She says she values
communication then pulls away when you
open up She says she's looking for
safety but runs toward chaos like it's
oxygen Arthur Schopenhau didn't see this
as a mistake He saw it as nature's
brutal design Because here's the red
pill most men choke on She's not lying
to you She's not evil She's not
manipulative She's divided Her words
belong to culture But her desire belongs
to nature And nature does not care how
kind you are It doesn't care that you
were there for her breakdown That you
skipped your dream to help her chase
hers Nature only responds to one thing
Who can survive Who can lead not please
Who can stand firm while the world and
she test him This is the story of the
modern man's slow death and Schopenhau's
warning that could resurrect him Welcome
to Why Women Don't Mean What They Say
You were taught to take her literally
She says she wants a kind man so you
become kinder She says she wants a man
who's emotionally available so you open
up like a diary with no lock She says
she's not like other women and you
believe her But Schopenhau knew
something modern men have forgotten What
a woman says and what she responds to
are two completely different languages
This isn't deception It's biology And
biology speaks in instinct not logic A
woman can say with complete sincerity "I
want a sweet dependable man." But that
same night find herself texting the man
who didn't reply for 3 days She might
tell her friends she's ready to settle
down While her body is drawn to the
unpredictable man who won't bend to her
rules Why Because her social self was
trained by media schools therapists and
a thousand romantic comedies But her
primal self was forged in 3 million
years of evolution And that primal self
doesn't want soft It wants safe
dominance grounded leadership unshakable
gravity That's why Schopenhau called
love especially female love a deception
of nature for the continuation of the
species He saw through the illusion He
warned that what we call romance is
often a biological imperative dressed up
in pretty language When she says "I want
a man who listens." She doesn't mean
speak more and tell me every feeling She
means be the man who hears everything
without being shaken Be the one who
doesn't flinch when I test you When she
says "I want emotional vulnerability,"
she doesn't mean constant access to your
insecurities She means "Show me your
depth but don't drown in it." You see
the problem Most men interpret her words
like a legal contract They think "If I
do exactly what she says I'll be loved
forever." Wrong She's not giving
instructions She's expressing confusion
Because even she doesn't fully
understand what draws her in Her biology
bypasses her intellect It doesn't care
how many good morning texts you send It
doesn't care how much effort you make It
only asks "Is this man worth admiring Is
he rooted Or is he bending to win me?"
And the second she senses that your
entire identity revolves around her
validation her body recoils Not because
she's cruel but because nature wired her
to pull away from anything that feels
emotionally dependent Dependence equals
danger to her survival instincts And
survival always wins So if you've ever
wondered why she lost interest after you
gave her everything the real answer is
devastatingly simple You gave too much
You became nothing You turned yourself
into a mirror And while she may have
loved the reflection at first she
eventually realized she was staring at
herself and felt nothing This is the
paradox The more you try to become the
man she says she wants the less you
remain the man her instincts respect You
thought devotion would make her love you
more You remembered every detail she
told you You were the shoulder she cried
on You canceled plans to be there for
her You became the man who never said no
The man who would do anything just to
keep the spark alive And for a while it
worked She smiled at your effort She
thanked you She maybe even said "I've
never had a man like you before." But
then something shifted The energy
changed The sparkle in her eyes started
fading She stopped laughing at your
jokes She got quieter more distant and
eventually she walked away leaving you
confused heartbroken and convinced that
something must be wrong with you But
Schopenhauer saw it coming He warned
that women driven by the instincts of
nature are not selecting based on
fairness kindness or consistency They
are selecting based on what moves them
emotionally Not what's good for them not
what makes sense but what stirs their
biology Here's the cold truth Your
devotion the very thing you thought
would win her killed the polarity that
kept her attracted to you Why Because
you gave her everything too easily No
friction no edge no mystery just comfort
stability predictability And while she
may have appreciated those things in
theory her nervous system didn't respond
with desire It responded with boredom
She didn't leave because you were bad
She left because you were safe too safe
Schopenhau wrote "Men are by nature more
capable of objectivity Women act more as
the instruments of the species." That
sounds harsh until you understand what
it really means Women are evolution's
gatekeepers They are not designed to
cherish what's convenient They are
programmed to test to challenge to
filter for strength So when a man begins
orbiting her adjusting his every move to
avoid upsetting her abandoning his edge
in the name of peace offering emotional
transparency with no restraint he
triggers no desire Not because she's
evil not because she's ungrateful but
because devotion without boundaries
feels like desperation And nothing kills
attraction faster than a man who looks
lost in her shadow You think she's
pulling away because you're not doing
enough But what she's really feeling is
that she already has you and now she
doesn't want you because the man she
admired was whole before she arrived He
had direction boundaries and mystery He
didn't explain himself He didn't perform
He simply was So when you traded your
edge for approval you didn't become more
lovable You became forgettable And the
deeper tragedy you thought this was
maturity You thought you were being a
better man but you were just becoming
easier to leave There are two women
inside every woman and most men only
ever meet the first The first is her
social self The one who speaks in values
goals and intentions The one who says
she wants emotional safety deep
connection a man who listens She
believes this She isn't lying She
genuinely thinks this version of herself
runs the show But there's a second woman
within her her primal self This one
doesn't speak She feels She doesn't care
about your good intentions your calm
tone or your punctuality She cares only
about who you are at your core about the
gravity in your silence the dominance in
your presence the sharpness in your
boundaries And here's where men get
destroyed They fall in love with what
she says and build themselves around it
They become her therapist her errand boy
her emotional support animal All the
while her primal self is slowly
suffocating because that version of her
was never attracted to safety She craves
polarity fire mystery risk Arthur
Schopenhau understood this dynamic long
before dating coaches existed He said
"Women exist in the main solely for the
propagation of the species and are only
the means there too." In plain English
her biology doesn't care about romance
It cares about selection She is nature's
filter And filters don't reward effort
They reward energy That's why the man
who tries too hard is punished While the
man who simply is is often the one she
can't stop thinking about and it drives
the modern man insane You think "But I'm
doing everything right." And she thinks
"I just don't feel it anymore." It's
because she's living in two realities
Her social self wants to want you but
her primal self doesn't respond And the
worst part she doesn't know how to
explain it Because how do you explain
that you're no longer drawn to the man
who loves you the most So she rewrites
the story She says "You changed You got
too emotional I just need space." But
what really happened is that you
collapsed your polarity You became too
known too predictable too explainable
And the feminine cannot be magnetized by
a man she fully understands Because her
deepest emotional desire isn't clarity
It's mystery within strength She wants
to feel your edges not your apologies
She wants to orbit a man who knows who
he is not one who asks her to define him
And she wants to surrender but only to a
man whose presence makes surrender feel
like safety not sacrifice You see now
her words and her biology are at war And
if you only respond to the first you'll
lose to the second every time You keep
listening to her words and that's why
you keep losing her You believed her
when she said "I just want you to be
more emotionally available." So you
opened up You told her your fears your
wounds your doubts You gave her honesty
transparency even tears And instead of
leaning in she leaned away Now you're
confused You feel punished for doing the
right thing You did what she asked So
why does it feel like a trap Because
brother and she doesn't speak the
language of words She speaks the
language of energy That means she
doesn't hear what you say She feels what
you are And what most men don't realize
is this You can say all the perfect
things but if your energy is off she'll
feel it and retreat Schopenhau didn't
speak in modern emotional vocabulary but
he saw through the illusion with laser
precision He understood that women are
attuned not to what is logical but to
what is felt Their biology is scanning
always for one question Is this man safe
to surrender to Not emotionally soft not
endlessly talkative not sensitive to the
point of self-rerasia She's testing for
presence The kind of presence that calms
storms not joins them So when you spill
your soul out of panic hoping it will
draw her closer What she actually feels
is instability Not because you're broken
but because you're offering your rawness
without any structure to hold it You've
become chaos And two chaotic energies
don't create safety They ignite panic
What she was actually asking for when
she said emotional availability was this
Can you feel deeply and still lead Can
you stay rooted while I'm overwhelmed
Can you let me fall apart without
falling apart with me That's emotional
leadership and very few men have it Most
men either shut down entirely or become
too open too fast too much Both are
unattractive because both signal that
you haven't tamed your own storm What
she wants even if she can't articulate
it is a man who has felt the fire within
him and can contain it Who can be
vulnerable not because he's falling
apart but because he's already healed
enough to offer it not bleed it She
doesn't want to be your emotional crutch
She wants to lean into your strength She
wants to admire your composure under
pressure She wants to feel your
stillness when her world is spinning But
the moment you place her on a pedestal
and ask her to regulate your emotions
you kill the polarity You stop being her
flame and become her burden She's not
trying to break you She's trying to feel
you To test the depth of your core not
through conversation but through
conflict emotion silence This is the
emotional language she actually speaks
Not words but resonance Not explanations
but energy If you can't speak it you'll
never truly touch her soul no matter how
much you say She said you were
everything she ever wanted You believed
her so you gave everything Your time
your loyalty your heart You worked every
day to prove you were worthy of her love
And then without warning she left Not in
a firestorm not in a dramatic betrayal
but quietly like a flame that simply
stopped burning You thought "What did I
do wrong?" But the answer was never
about what you did It was who you became
Schopenhau wrote "A man can be himself
only so long as he is alone." That's not
a call for isolation It's a warning The
moment a man shapes himself around the
approval of a woman he loses the very
essence that made him desirable in the
first place Because when a man gives
everything he doesn't just give gifts or
affection He gives his spine And that's
the moment she begins to look at him
differently Not because he failed her
but because he abandoned himself to
please her She didn't leave you because
you weren't enough She left because you
stopped being a mountain You became the
mud beneath her feet and no woman can
desire what she walks on Here's the
paradox The more available you became
the more invisible you became The man
she adored wasn't the one texting all
day He wasn't the one begging for
clarity He wasn't the one overexplaining
over accommodating overgiving No the man
who made her melt was centered His
energy was a gravitational pull He
didn't need her love to be whole He
invited her in but never collapsed
around her And she felt that She felt it
in the way he took up space in the way
he held eye contact without flinching in
the way he made decisions without
seeking permission He was rooted in
mission not in her approval That energy
is intoxicating But it's also terrifying
to a man who's been raised to believe
that nice guys win in the end Let's be
honest you weren't trying to manipulate
her You were trying to earn her love
with effort But effort is not the
currency of attraction presence is And
the more effort you poured out the more
she realized you were no longer leading
You were orbiting That's when the
respect died Not because you weren't
good enough but because you were too
accessible too explainable too
comfortable And comfort without strength
becomes boring Boring becomes
predictable Predictable becomes
unnoticeable So she drifted Not because
she stopped loving you but because she
stopped feeling you You became her
emotional employee And no woman stays in
love with an employee This is the
tragedy no one prepares men for That
unconditional giving without grounding
doesn't make her fall harder It makes
her fall away She'll never say it Not
out loud Not directly Not in words you
can hold on to like a compass But deep
in her biology beneath the language
beneath the logic she's begging for a
man she can admire Not one who bends Not
one who begs Not one who gives and gives
hoping to be chosen She wants to feel
drawn to you not out of guilt not out of
duty but out of awe And that only
happens when you stop asking who you
need to be for her and finally decide
who you are for yourself Schopenhauer
said "A man who is not master of himself
is not fit to be the master of anything
Least of all a woman's heart You were
never supposed to be her emotional
crutch You were supposed to be her
anchor her frame of reference for what
strength looks like If you're constantly
trying to fix things explain yourself
win her love You've already lost the
polarity You've traded admiration for
access you've become known and what is
fully known can never again be
mysterious And without mystery there is
no magnetism So stop trying to be the
man she tells you to be And start
becoming the man who doesn't need to be
told Lead decide build your code live by
it and let her orbit something real
Because the truth is when a man steps
fully into his sovereignty she feels it
Before you speak before you act before
you touch her she senses it in your
being That's what she respects That's
what reignites her admiration That's
what brings her back Not because she
owns you but because she trusts you And
if you've lost yourself trying to keep
her it's time to walk back into your own
fire