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Do you feel ambition can be misinterpreted by a partner when in a relationship?

It seems to me that a lot of women treat ambition as a make or break despite several other factors that go into a relationship. I don't disagree with anyone saying that people who are ambitious tend to be the most intelligent, driven, and go after their goals unlike people who are lazy and not ambition. However, couldn't it be possible also that girls would get the wrong impression about their men who otherwise work extremely hard to be successful and are driven to learn, but are somehow just assumed to be lazy when they are not getting the results they desire.? I mean after all just because someone is unsuccessful doesn't mean they don't put in an extraordinary effort. We are just driven to the assumption based on societal pressures that if someone is unsuccessful they have to be labeled as lazy people who don't want to learn. I personally don't think that's a fair label to assume someone is lazy if they're unsuccessful especially if someone doesn't see how hard someone works and how much drive they have to learn even when the results may not show it.

What women really want in my opinion are results oriented men, being ambitious does help a great deal to getting results, but doesn't guarantee them and that's where hard working men can get the unfair lazy label. If a woman is a going to label an unsuccessful ambitious man anything, it should be that he lacks results and not that he is lazy, because there is such a thing as working hard to not receive results.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    That's true.

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