"When a man falls in love with a woman, he sees her as a goddess"

It happened a lot when I was a lot younger. Put on a pedestal as this perfect innocent thing and it got a bit creepy / stalky when I wasn’t interested. It why I probably started going for the Jack the lad types that weren’t like that. But as we all got older dating became more on an equal footing. Probably why it’s not a good idea to settle down to young. But yes I think a lot of young boys fall harder and faster at first and many can become a bit obsessive.

It's just a silly phrase nobody actually believes their partner is god and worships them in that sense.

My husband is like this and everyone around us tells me he worships the ground I walk on haha. 10 years, kids and houses later and we’re still both obsessed with each other so it’s working out okay for us!

If this were true then it certainly explains why so many relationships fall apart when reality kicks in!

MN always gives a lot of reasons to look askance at men's behaviour and here is another one if it were true. Are they really that stupid?

Need to know where you heard it- sounds a bit creepy manosphere-ish to me.

What tosh! 😂

My experience has been the ones who 'worship' you, at least at the beginning are the ones who end up stalking, doing creepy stuff, refuse to leave you alone and make life a misery. Blocking or grey rock don't work and it takes a blunt chat with the police to get them to cut it out.

Funny sort of worship !

There are two ways to see their behaviour, a) they are manipulative, nasty, selfish and in many cases just plain dangerous, or b) testosterone renders them incapable of rational thought.

I try to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume b.

Not in my experience. My ex was a bit obsessed with me when we met, he was very young (we both were - early 20’s) and wouldn’t take no for an answer. I never thought we’d be compatible (different cultures, we came from different worlds) but eventually we got together. We have been split 15yrs and i’d say he will always hold a torch for me, and we get on well still and I genuinely do care about him as father of my children, but he definitely never worshipped me. In fact as time went on, he resented things that happened before we got together and started to plot revenge in weird ways. It caused the end of our relationship.

I’ve never had a man worship me, but i’ve seen relationships where it happens. I don’t think i’d like that, but it must be nice to know you’re someones no 1 and they put you first. All the men i’ve ever been infatuated with, have been pretty indifferent, and one who claimed undying love in the first month, then became a dick. He’s still lurking, 3.5yrs later, like he can’t fully let go, but is still sporadic with contact. I have pretty much been single my whole adult life, and have focussed on my kids. Even though youngest is 18 now, and I can date if I want, i’m so put off men.

I heard it in a talk or something, then asked my male friends if it was true for them. They all said yes

All of them? How many was that?