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Men seem to miss out on the social skills, the normal things a woman teaches them. The manners, the niceties, the taming of rough edges. There are many Rabbonim who lecture about this. I have heard them say, “I send the guy out on a date and when he comes back he is so confused that the woman doesn’t want to go out again. So I ask about the date and what I hear is geferluch. He has no social skills. He doesn’t know how to talk to a woman. He doesn’t know how to listen and take an interest in what she has to say. He doesn’t know how to ask questions or be interested in her life, etc.” So I had to start from square one and coach him how to handle a date.”

You can see this when you have single men for Shabbos meals. They tell the off colored jokes forgetting that they are sitting in mixed company. Their conversations revolve only about their own lives and problems and they take very little interest in whomever else is sitting at the table.

I am not talking about anyone in particular, this is a general perception about men who have never been married.