The "Perspective"

Woman: "You are my everything..."

Guy: "You are something out of a lot of other things..."

Woman: "That's mighty honest of you..."

Guy: "That's me...I am honest because I love you..."

If you take the above true story conversation, it just explains how a woman and man look at life. I may be speaking in an Asian, more cultural/traditional perspective but that's what the traditional woman feels once the marriage bond has been created. That is what the whole life is about now. That is who around which her whole life will revolve now, call it kids, family, food, work...you name it and everything in her life is going to be linked to him....

But when it comes from the perspective of the guy, he has a lot more on his plate...and its not only the wife and kids...there is father, mother, siblings which hold as a responsibility in his life just like wife and kids. I am not ignoring the fact that the woman has responsibilities towards her father, mother and siblings also but in this part of the world its not the same. The parents of the daughter do not expect to a level as compared to the son. Even if they do not expect, the responsibility is still greater. That's how things work.

So in the end, it depends on the perspective...while the guy may love the woman no less than she loves him....she can never be "Everything in his life..." She will continue to be "Something amongst other things..."