男人來自火星，女人來自金星

Imagine that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. One day long ago the 1)Martians, looking through their telescopes, discovered the 2) Venusians. Just glimpsing the Venusians awakened feelings they had never known. They fell in love and quickly invented space travel and flew to Venus. The Venusians welcomed the Martians with open arms. The love between the Venusians and Martians was magical. They delighted in being together, doing things together, and sharing together. Though from different worlds, they 3) reveled in (took pleasure) their differences. For years they lived together in love and harmony. Then they decided to fly to Earth. In the beginning everything was wonderful and beautiful. But the effects of Earth’s atmosphere 4) took hold, and one morning everyone woke up with a 5)peculiar kind of 6)amnesia, selective amnesia!?

Both the Martians and Venusians forgot that they were from different planets and were supposed to be different. In one morning everything they had learned about their differences was erased from their memory. Without the awareness that we are supposed to be different, men and women are 7)at odds with each other. We usually become angry or frustrated with the opposite sex because we have forgotten this important truth. We expect the opposite sex to be more like ourselves. We desire them to want what we want and feel the way we feel. We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways the ways we react and behave when we love someone.?

　　讓我們來設(shè)想一下男人來自火星,而女人來自金星:很久以前的某一天,火星人透過望遠(yuǎn)鏡眺望時,發(fā)現(xiàn)了金星人,對其僅僅一瞥,就喚起了他們從未有過的感覺。他們愛上了這些金星人,于是迅速發(fā)明了太空旅行裝置,飛往金星。金星人張開雙臂歡迎火星人。金星人和火星人之間擦出的愛火不可思議。他們喜歡呆在一起,一塊兒做事,一塊兒分享。盡管來自不同的世界,他們著迷(欣喜)于彼此的差異。此后多年,他們沉浸在愛中,和睦相處。接著,他們決定飛往地球。一開始,一切都如此美妙。但地球的環(huán)境開始起作用,一天早上,所有人從睡夢中醒來,都患上了一種特殊的健忘癥——選擇性健忘癥!?

火星人和金星人都忘了他們來自不同的星球,本來就存在差異。突然,一個早上的時間,他們就全然忘記了他們曾熟知的彼此差異。不清楚兩性原來就有差異,這導(dǎo)致男人和女人之間經(jīng)常起爭執(zhí)。通常情況下,我們對異性感到氣憤或是沮喪是因?yàn)槲覀兺浟诉@一重要事實(shí)。我們期望異性和我們更相像。我們渴望他們和自己有共同的需求和感受。我們錯誤地假定,如果伴侶愛我們,那他們的行為反應(yīng)就會跟我們對他們愛意舉動和反應(yīng)一模一樣。