No I can't, sweetheart, so it would be easier overall if you just told me what you were thinking.
We have such difficulty doing this though, don't we? And when we think we know what we want, something in our head flips and there's another set of stuff we want. Dammit, this affects me at least as badly as everyone else, so I doubt it's a sex-based thing. My suspicion is that desire-drift grows from mental rootlessness - in other words, lack of a spiritual anchor.
There are two problems here:
1. Not knowing what we want.
2. Inability to communicate today's (or any) specific want.
The latter is a limitation of language. At the best granularity, I doubt we ever move beyond 80% efficiency when trying to get our thinking across to another. If the former - the actual meat of what we're looking for from the other person - changes direction like a school of fish, we transmit almost nothing.
Consistency is the answer. I should decide upon what I want, and tell the people who need to know what those things are. After a while, the message will get through.
Or I could find a woman who can read my mind
Bottoms Up, Communicators!
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