Whereas men have comebacks to insults, women will dwell on it and figure out how to avoid being insulted in the same manner again. Guys compete for stupid stuff, Henning said, and women compete to be the most attractive. This is exemplified by the fact that women all wear different dresses to formal gatherings, but men almost always wear the exact same things - tuxedos. Men think, while women feel, Henning said, stressing that this does not mean that women don't think. The average man speaks 12,000 words a day and the average woman speaks 24,000.
Women think about it for a long time.
This is why certain things take on different meanings for men and women, Henning said. She is also saying that she's willing to spend the rest of her life with that man, get married, have children, etc. When a man tells a woman he loves her, he means it at that moment in time, but has, most likely, not thought quite as much about it as the woman has. Likewise, women read into everything, but men do not, which is why they can't take hints, as Henning comedically explained. Women sometimes suspect men profess love just to get them in bed.