Get ready to go out.

Use the bathroom.

Make up your mind.

plotting the criticisms for their SO for the day

everything

Planning

Make a decision

Give up, when problems seem insurmountable.

Choosing what clothes to buy.

Choosing a gift for someone.

Take a shower.

There have been several fun car commercials depicting this. One of my favorites featureed a woman arriving home (in a lovely, roomy, full featured car). She enters her home to find chaos and noise — large Great Dane barking, house-sized drone crashing into things, a zoned out tween daughter absorbed in her smart phone. The woman retreats to her luxury car, adjusts the climate control, reclines the seat and exhales with relief.

On a bleaker note. I’ve read accounts of assaulted women, with PTSD, going out to their cars, where in privacy, they could pour their tortured hearts out to a ”listening” tape recorder. That was one of the most painfully poignant accounts I ever read about. (Few people can grasp or are willing to countenance the rage, grief and isolation of PTSD — thus the intense and desperate isolation of trauma victims experiencing this powerful psychological and emotional upheaval.

Choosing what clothes to wear.

My first thought was shower...do their hair...

But I'll go with go to the bathroom. Women have to get half undressed to go are more likely to wash their hands vs. men who can just zip, zip...they don't even have to sit down!