Intergender Communication and Gender-Sensitive Family Therapy
Some have claimed that the problems couples bring to marital therapists can be reduced to women wanting more time in the living room (conversation), and men wanting more time in the bedroom (sexual activity). Although this gender stereotype is simplistic and insulting to both genders, it is, nevertheless, well enough accepted to illustrate that men and women recognize that they live in different gender worlds, with each poorly understanding life in the other world much of the time. In many ways, traditional gender socialization promotes gender segregation and polarization, resulting in intergender relationships characterized by partial knowledge, fantasized truths, and misunderstanding.

