Why do women worry so much??

I think it is a maternal instinct. The men have to worry about how they are going to take care of their family in the financial sense. They think of the here and now more than the future. Whereas women tend to think of long term consequences.
But that's just my opinion... and it could be wrong.

I think someone has to worry & if my husband isn't going to I better LOL! It's good to have that balance...the care free one & the nervous one ;o).

Jill, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said, because the men do not worry.
Boys have their mothers to worry about them. Men have their wives. Otherwise if they are wealthy, they have private secretaries to do it for them. What would they do without us. LOL

It's our nature! I worry about everything and my husband worries about nothing!

I heard someone say once, "behind every successful man there is a woman that helped him get there...."

my husband's the worrier in our family. I never worry about anything and he constantly does. I guess he's the woman and I'm the man. Haha. ;-) THen again, I don't have kids so that could be why I feel more carefree than most gals.

yes, Birdee... the man is the head, but thw wife is the NECK!

That's true Tab!! I loved it in that movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" when the mom said that. "The man may be the head, but the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head ANY WAY SHE WANTS!" LOL

Definately seems to work that way in my house - It must be biological!

I thought that it was always my Irish Catholic heritage, not a woman thing.

I know that he worries or stresses, he just doesn't share it with me. I can see subtle changes and I have to pull it out like teeth, but it is there.

I also don't have kids, he does. I realize that I come up with worries that he doesn't even consider. Like I read an article the other day that says that one in four women in college are sexually assaulted. He was shocked, I knew better. It was something that he hadn't even thought about, but it would explain a lot about why his daughter bailed out of college away from home.....or it could just my Irish Catholic worrying......

I think we women worry about the "maybes" and men worry about the realities, maybe that it the difference.

I worry all the time

I don't worry much....

must be just the way it is. we are moving, and i am constantly thinking of all that has to be done and i feel like my husband is in lala land. he is not worrying with me, he just knows that when it needs to be done it will.

I think it is just ingrained into some of us. My dad was laid back and so is my husband. My mom was the tyrant (I am not sure if she is a worrier or not), and I am a non-stop worrier. In fact, I actually lose sleep from it.

My mom was a big time worrier in our family growing up!! I learned alot of how to worry from the best.
My husband doesn't seems to have a lot of worries!! He is very carefree. I love that about him!
I dont' think I worry as much as I used to though. I found out it was really exhausting. I try to put problems I have into God's hands, and try to remember that he is the one in charge. It helps a great deal.

I have to worry because my husband will not. LOL Someone has to worry. :)

Maybe someone needs to do the worrying.

Men don't worry because worrying solves nothing. We think about life and the future...we just don't woory about it. There's a problem...you deal with it...period.

I've recently giving up worrying and have taken to liking Josh's approach of "leave it alone and it''ll either work itself out or it won't" lol And he also says exactly what Felix just said in his comment above me. Perhaps they're on to something!

"Worry is a misuse of imagination." - Dan Zadra

I try to live by it... easier said than done.

Jill, my husband and I just had a discussion about this today. I always thought that it was my Danish heritage that made me worry, and his Jamaican culture that made him not worry. I guess it is more of a male female thing. I know that my worries drive him crazy, so I really try not to let him see it, but the knot in my stomache just won't disappear.

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Men and women were created differently. Men think differently. Women are innately nurturing. Women are also better multi taskers than men. They worry about things because they feel a sense of responsibility for peoples happiness and the success of an event. Men don't take it personal if no one shows up to a party, they consider themselves LUCKY! Men have two tasks, make a living for his family, make sure there is a roof over his family's head. Just my opinion. Thanks for allowing me to share.

OMG!!! I was JUST having this conversation earlier with a really good friend of mine today. I am having a panic attack b/c I won't be at my daughters school tomorrow for the Halloween festivities - I have to work. I LOVE my job seriously but I feel so guilty about not being there for her and taking the pictures and all the other stuff. I feel like I am failing her as a mom - and my hubby - he totally doesn't get it at all.

Every morning when we drop her off at school - I want so badly to wait with her on the playground until it is time for class - and hubby is all "hurry up - I'm gonna be late for work" and my tummy just clinches and I feel sick!!!!!

It HAS to have something to do with the fact that they (babies) are inside us for 9 months (8 in my daughters case) they are PHYSICALLY bonded to you and EMOTIONALLY as well. I am a big old blubbery mess when it comes to my daughters safety - I'm all riled up for the PTA meeting next month - because I think that the security at the school sucks - I won't let her eat the "yucky" lunches and I have antibacterial soap in every room in the house - and in the car!!! I am so overprotective that someimes I think I am going insane!!!!

Michelle - you are right - I think hubby worries - just not about the same things - he focuses on his job and that alone is enough for him. It's true that I am better at trying not to worry too much about things that I have no control over (bills & the like)

Thanks Jill for this article - I like knowing I am not alone!!!

I have to say, my husband worries an awful lot as well. I think that there are men worriers out there. It just depends on your personality!

Men worry, they just don't show it and keep it inside. Thus they also tend to die younger.