The concept of how men and women process details differently will be something that most individuals learn personally - eventually. We all hear about it from our childhood - that men and women, boys and girls, “just think differently,” or that men will “never, never understand women,” or some comment to the effect of “you don't get me.” I don't know how much I embrace the science behind this concept, but I have first-hand experience with the reality of it. And while I agree that men and women need each other’s perspectives to complement each other and to be optimally effective, God created us distinct from each other, in the ways we think, for a purpose. Yesterday as I was teaching a class that my wife was attending, I interacted fluidly with the class members and the many questions that arose. Afterward, there was a sense of growth and fulfillment and what was achieved until my wife pointed out whom she noticed as having been annoyed at the questions that kept us from moving forward in the lesson. She was more sensitive to feelings, while I was fixated on the linear target of answering the questions that I saw as most needing to be addressed. While I need the benefit of her observations so I can make sure to move forward more effectively in the future, I didn't need them at that moment. At that moment they would have crippled my mission to effectively teach in response to appropriate questions – because they would have annoyed me or made me self-conscious. I didn’t need the distractions of the perceptions she had based on her sensitivity to things of which I was unaware – “at that moment.” Sometimes the circumstances may be different. There may be times that our partners perceive things we miss that we need to acknowledge immediately. We don’t need to discount that this is possible, but we need to be sensitive to when and where we share what God shows us. I'm glad I think like a man because I am a man. My wife, family, and church need me to think like a man. And I'm glad my wife thinks like a woman. Me, my kids, and our church need her to think like a woman. We are the partners who complete the purposes God has for us as mankind (“He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and called them mankind.” Genesis 5:2CSB) whose thoughts and perspectives we both need from each other.