Plucking the Male Ego.

I was reading an article titled "Plucking the Male Ego" in the Australian Cleo Magazine. Its about how girls should burst their bf's confidence bubble (and mind you...just slightly) and how it may be the key to true love.

For example, a girl plucks grey hair out of her 30-year-old boyfriend's eyebrows, but he's not going grey. In fact, despite what she tells her partners, he's never had a single grey hair anywhere on his young hot body. So, what she really is extracting from her man is an inflated ego.
Every time he gets a little too sure of himself, a little too cocky and starts taking her for granted, she gets out her warmest smile and her cute pink tweezers. In an instant, he's back to his attentive self, thinking how lucky he is to have scored such an accepting girlfriend, ageing the way he is and all.

So the question is, why do we do this to men we not only like, but love? Is it because we don't value the relationship or them? As a matter of fact, No.
It's just that, every now and then, even the best boyfriend or husband can get a little too comfortable within the relationship and become complacent. So we offer a loving reminder that perhaps he's not as perfect as we've made him believe he is, so that he tries a little harder. After all, most of the time it's us girls who have inflated his ego, so it only seems fair that it's us who lets out a little air.

It seems a man will only walk all over a woman if she hasn't keot him on his toes. That said, you can't dun a man's self-confidence into the ground and expect the relationship to thrive. A guy's ego is a delicate flower that needs watering and, if it isn't coming from you, most likely, he'll start looking elsewhere. Conversel, if you flood him with praise, be warned, the relationship will be wilt.

So, to you girls out there, don't spoil your guy too much. Make them work for it.