anteed, even once their needs have been met. We fully recog-
nize that you maintain the right to change at any time the
perimeters, conditions, and specifics of what, exactly, will make
you happy, and we try to adjust accordingly, and usually can’t.
Now men, by contrast, are very simple creatures. It really
doesn’t take much to make us happy. In fact, there are only
three things that pretty much every man needs—support, love,
and “The Cookie.” Three things—that’s it. And I’m here to
tell you that yes, it’s that simple. What we need never weakens
or wavers—hardly ever gets more demanding or harder to
achieve. In fact, I’d argue that it’s easy for a woman to give her
man support, love, and sex because it’s in her makeup—sup-
port and love are things that women dole out innately and
freely. You just call it something else: nurturing. And if you
love a man enough to nurture him, then I’d argue you love
him enough to be intimate with him. So those three things
come natural to you. And this is all your man wants from you.
Let me break it down.
We have to feel like somebody’s got our back—like we’re
the king, even if we’re not. You have to understand that when
we walk out the door, the entire world is standing at the ready
to beat us down. Black, white, yellow, striped, every man leaves
Wh