Bland title?
Not anymore if you keep on reading.
FIRST SESSION
Psychologist: So, tell me something about yourself.
Jasper: Well, my name is Jasper Yñiguez. I’m a student from DLSU taking up Developmental Studies.
Psychologist: Is that all?
Jasper: Not really.
Psychologist: Tell me more then.
Jasper: Okay. I don’t really have time for this. Let’s go straight to the point.
Psychologist: And the point is?
Jasper: I’m here because of my girlfriend.
Psychologist: Tell me something about your girlfriend.
Jasper: Uhmm… she’s… well… We have a problem.
Psychologist: Is that so?
Jasper: Ewan. ‘yun ang sabi niya e. I never really know.
Psychologist: What do you mean by you never really know?
Jasper: I don’t know if we really have troubles. Ginagawa ko part ko which is to be her boyfriend. But she keeps on insisting that there’s something to fix in us.
Psychologist: Meaning?
Jasper: There’s something wrong because she said so.
SECOND SESSION
Psychologist: Where were you?
Jasper: In my car, along EDSA.
Psychologist: Why were you so quiet?
Jasper: I came here to answer that?
Psychologist: nods
Jasper: I was quiet because I was at peace. I was at peace because my girl was with me. What could I ask for? This is just one of those moments wherein I can chill, be quiet, be at peace in my car with my girl. And nothing tops chillin’, being quiet and peaceful with my girlfriend. It’s a quiet and peaceful time to me with her.
THIRD SESSION
Psychologist: What do you do after a fight?
Jasper: A lot of things.
Psychologist: Like?
Jasper: Do I have to be very specific in what we do after a fight?
Psychologist: What do you think?
Jasper: sigh Sometimes we do it. Sometimes she sends me out of the condo or she leaves the condo.
Psychologist: Which do you prefer to do?
Jasper: Siyempre, hindi na tinatanong ‘yan. I wanna do it with her.
Psychologist: Why?
Jasper: Simple lang, past is past. What’s done is done. Move on. If we fight over a thing and mull on it for the next days, nothing’s gonna change the fact that we fought. The fight occurred and the best way to, at least, somehow, overlap the fight is to move on. You know, get naked, have sex, make up.
FOURTH SESSION
Psychologist: What do you want to do first thing in the morning?
Jasper: It’s a big day ahead, so I have to plan. I must see to it that I smooth things out in my schedule.
Psychologist: ‘yun ba ang nangyayari sa condo niyo in Libis?
Jasper: Hindi.
Psychologist: So what happens?
Jasper: Sometimes she pulls me back to the bed.
Psychologist: Then?
Jasper: She starts hugging me. Kissing me. She starts this annoying thing like, whispering sweet notings. I mean, there is a time for that but not when you have day ahead. Not in the morning—not topping the list of your priorities for the big day ahead.
FIFTH SESSION
Psychologist: Saan mo siya dinate?
Jasper: Sa Dusit.
Psychologist: Hotel?
Jasper: We ate dinner there.
Psychologist: What was the highlight of your date?
Jasper: The food and my girl.
Psychologist: Why?
Jasper: The food was really delicious. The menu was French inspired so, you know. And Happy was really beautiful.
Psychologist: Rate the evening. 1 is the lowest. 10 the highest.
Jasper: 15.
Psychologist: Let me remind you, nag-away kayo.
Jasper: Well yeah. We fought because she wants to talk about getting married, how many children I want, what their names would be, what paint should I apply on the fence of the house we’ll live in. We just started college and she talks about that. I’m in my 2nd year and my girl talks about a black iron fence embedded on granite bricks. How pathetic could that be?
SIXTH SESSION
Psychologist: How do you handle your problems?
Jasper: Mine? Or ours?
Psychologist: Happy’s and yours.
Jasper: I keep it to myself. I think about it. I try to find possible solutions to it. I see to it that I have back-up plans.
Psychologist: You don’t ask for help? Don’t seek advice?
Jasper: No. Men are rational. Men are calm. Combine calmness and rationality and you have a genius.
Psychologist: How does Happy handle your problems?
Jasper: I hate how she handles the problems. She tells everything to her friends. She holds a sleepover somewhere that all her beshies attend to and there she spills every detail about the problem. The point is, our problem is publicized. It was meant to be private but is made public by the girl I love. I feel like she’s humiliating me. It’s destroying our image not just as an individual but as a couple.
Psychologist: Will you kill her for that?
Jasper: Hell no.
CONCLUSION
Men are creatures who live in the moment. Living in the moment means capturing every detail of the present situation. Men do not like it when their girls starts talking marriage and all that. Men are creatures who have no sense of commitment-they don’t want to be committed, they don’t like being tied or glued into something that would make them less of a man. A man feels like he becomes less manly when his girl talks about commitment to him, when his girl wouldn’t want to do the deed with him, he becomes less of a man when he starts to spill his problem or when he talks about emotions and something deeper. We have to admit it. Men are superficial animals and that’s what’s making them tick. You like a man because of his gorgeous eyes. You love a man because of what those eyes see. And what they see is nothing but calm ocean here and there and everywhere. That’s probably the reason why women feel secure when they’re with their man. It’s the calmness that makes it as if everything as in everything will be all right and good. Men are less expressive than women. As a matter of fact, men, well some, think that saying “i love you” is the same with making love. Men adore what women do not-men adores what’s superficial and women adore what’s beyond superficial.
