well
women have been a mystery to men since creation and even sigmund freud could not tell you what they want ........

BUT isnt every man also different in some ways n isnt it easier for us men to understand another men but find it difficult to understand women...

well I have always felt understanding comes from caring for a person and when a person feels strongly bout the other then this understanding comes ur way ....... yes men are impatient n impulsive but so are many women also but the only difference is that men show it and women hide it or we men are so dumbfounded by there beauty that we plainly dont see it and more often it is the later rather than the former

women observe n we men just plainly walk past it .........

the day men start paying attention to finer details it will no longer be a mystery of what women want ..........

I being a sailor was told by my seniors when I was a cadet that the sea is like a woman n man has she proved it time n again to me that over the past decade I hv been at sea .......

anyway the main thing that i feel to knowing wht women want comes from understanding them n paying attention to them n I mean undivided attention .......

thats my thinking

Aren't we all??

Each and every one of us is an individual and I don't think anyone will ever truly understand anyone else...unless you get inside their head and wear their shoes, as it were.
Are we *meant* to truly understand one another? It seems to me that a 'relationship' (platonic or otherwise) works best when we stop trying *too hard* to understand each other and instead simply respect one another's uniqueness.
(reminds me years ago, my sister cross-stitched me a little picture that said "Don't try to understand me, just love me for who I am".....that suits me!).
One of my son's has Asperger's and manic depression, no one - not even his own mother - will ever truly understand him, but we - and his girlfriend - love him unreservedly - and I think he is living proof that 'understanding' someone (ie what makes them tick) is not important.