Don't Wait For Your Woman

This is the first in the next few posts where I'm quoting from a book I'm reading. These are passages that struck me the most or I find useful or both.

This first passage is about stopping to wait for your woman (or the whole world really) to change. Assume it's going to be however it is, forever. Just stop waiting and live in the present moment, as it is:

"...In addition to the myth that one day your life will be fundamentally different, you may believe, and hope, that your woman will be fundamentally different. Don't wait. Assume she's going to be however she is, forever. If your woman's behavior or mood is truly intolerable to you, you should leave her, and don't look back (since you cannot change her). However, if you find her behavior or mood merely distasteful or a hassle, realize that she will always seem this way. The feminine always seems chaotic and complicated from the perspective of the masculine."

-David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man