Tom Miller

This language of ours is always changing. At one point, if you really liked someone's eyebrows, you'd say they were "neato"; now you'd say 'those eyebrows ate." How delightful is that? Sure, it's troublesome when benign words come to mean something else entirely or develop a connotation in which they may get a time-traveler punched in the face, but for the most part, language's constant evolution is one of humanity's more fascinating features.

Most people assume attraction starts and ends with appearance, but that’s rarely how it works in real life. Women who attract men like bees to honey usually share a handful of non-physical traits that make people feel comfortable, understood, and interested in sticking around. None of these traits requires changing your personality or performing some upgraded version of yourself.

There are a lot of lists of relationship mistakes women should stop making out there that focus on little things that annoy men. But I've noticed most of the same types of lists about men are focused on big mistakes and daily cruelties. So in the name of making this space impartial and fair, here are 13 mistakes men make in relationships that annoy the women they love (and ones just like a little). 13 things grown men do that annoy the women they like Easy Nietzsche, enjoy the silence.