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At one point or another, most women find themselves in a relationship where he is withdrawing and they are the ones doing everything. Calling all the time, planning everything, driving, even initiating the affection or intimacy? It's a pretty bad feeling when you are the one doing all the work.

Soon enough, your fun relationship turns into a lot of work, and you might start to get hostile or needy. You are not getting what you need, and you are overcompensating for that. "Overfunctioning" is the term Rori Raye has coined for this problem, and I think it fits.

What overfunctioning means is that you are doing the work of two people - you are functoning both as the man, and as the woman in the relationship. What you don't know, though, is that you don't like it - but neither does HE! Men want to be MEN, not emasculated by being babied and taken care of.

This usually starts out with the opposite intentions - you want to prove that you are NOT needy - you are strong and capable and do NOT need a man to take care of you. So you start taking charge. You start correcting him. And it goes on from there.

Doing this, we take over the masculine roll in the relationship, which kills the attraction completely. The attraction dies because he wants YOU to be the woman, and you want HIM to be the man, but by trying to prove how strong and independent you are - you have taken that roll from him, and doused the fire.

That does not mean that men like women who have no brain or backbone. What it DOES mean is that he wants you to be you, and let him be HIM. If you take that role from him, it only kills the attraction, but begins putting YOU in the "friend-zone" - which is certainly not where you want to be if you are romantically interested in this fellow because the relationship becomes a male and male relationship, not man and woman.

The good news is that it is never to late to change. You can begin by becoming aware of yourself and the things you are doing. If you become aware of yourself, you can see when you start to be the man in the relationship and then loosen your hold and step back.

Begin noticing when you start feeling negative and are about to talk to yourself in a negative way. This usually means you will then try to do something to make yourself feel better afterwards, like attention seeking behavior or needy, clingy actions so your man will sooth you.

If you do that, you will also start to notice when you are going to start speaking in a negative way to HIM. You will see when you are going to tell him how to do something, or why, or try to take over for him when he does not want you to. If you can stop this behavior, you can begin to turn your relationship around for the better.

You can also begin taking your cues from his actions. If you do or say something and he reacts in a positive way, by giving you affection or telling you he loves you, you know you are on the right track. If he reacts by withdrawing, getting quiet, breaking eye contact or any other sign of stress, you know that you are taking away from him.

By doing these things, allowing him to be the man and paying attention to the cues, you can begin shaping your relationship into the relationship that you want it to be.

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