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  • Writer: Marcus Nikos
    Marcus Nikos
  • Jun 15
  • 11 min read

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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 

 
 
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