I know of so many women, in real life, in threads on mn, and on local Facebook groups with variations of the following:
'I passed my test, but I'm too scared to drive now, but it's ok, dp drives'
'I'm a nervous driver so don't feel I can go anywhere new/drive in traffic unless someone else takes me'
'I only drive these types of journeys'
'There's no point me learning to drive as DH does anything anyway'
Now there might be a whole raft of men out there who feel the same, but I can only think of one couple I know where the man learned to drive late and still doesn't do much driving. For what it's worth, I know lots of couples where the woman drives more than the man, but typically because 'her' car is the family car, whereas the man has the runaround/sports car/van or whatever. But if there's a non driver, it's nearly always the woman.
Why? Are women more nervous? Are we conditioned to be the nervy ones? Or am I spotting a trend which doesn't exist?
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Jenijena · 19/05/2016 19:23
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