Men and women connect differently, and most people don’t think about that until they’re already in the middle of a fight about a text message that was never really about a text message. Claudia Six, Ph.D., a clinical sexologist with over 34 years of experience and author of Erotic Integrity , laid out six of the most common places where that disconnect lives, writing in Psychology Today . The hetero model, for the sake of this piece. Videos by VICE Your Silence Reads as Withdrawal Her brain doesn’t do well with unexplained silence. Yours might be perfectly content to sit in it, but hers is already three scenarios deep into what it might mean. A quick “still thinking, still here” costs you nothing and saves you from a very different conversation later.  She Doesn’t Think in a Straight Line Men tend to want the headline. Women tend to give you the whole story because the whole story is how they process and connect. If you spend the conversation waiting for her to get there, you’ve already missed it.…