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"  Today&amp;#039;s papers seem stuffed with slightly depressing news about our minds, bodies and relationships (only 3% of relationships end in marriage! Chick-lit makes you feel fat! Saying sorry is bad for your self esteem!). But nestled among them, like a James Dean lookalike in a bar full of Dean Gaffneys, was a story that was quite cheering. After years of being told that men are apparently some kind of alien species, it turns out that men and women aren&amp;#039;t so different after all. Who knew? Well, us, mainly. HOW TO TELL IF YOUR RELATIONSHIP IS DOOMED Of course, there are certain ways in which men and women will always be different (we&amp;#039;re pretty grateful we don&amp;#039;t have balls, they&amp;#039;re probably pretty happy they&amp;#039;ll never have to push a human out of a vagina).  But as we so often discover when putting together Cosmo&amp;#039;s Inside Men&amp;#039;s Minds section, it&amp;#039;s the things that make us so similar that are most striking. For example, this month a male writer reveals that men&amp;#039;s confidence wobbles include bumping into an ex or getting naked with a new partner. Sound familiar? SPICE UP YOUR SEX LIFE To confirm the not-so-startling-but-comforting fact that, deep down, we&amp;#039;re all the same, researchers asked 13,300 people 122 sex-stereotyped questions. &amp;#039;Do you just LOVE chatting on the phone about shoes?&amp;#039; they (kind of) asked. &amp;#039;Does playing video games make you happier than Lady Gaga sitting in a giant egg?&amp;#039; Some differences did emerge. Men like porn more than women (like, duh), while we&amp;#039;re HUGE fans of &amp;#039;scrapbooking&amp;#039; \u2013 which is basically pre-Internet Pinterest. But overall, there was little difference in our attitudes to relationships and what we look for in a partner, even though we often blame each other&amp;#039;s gender when we argue. LOVED-UP COUPLES (AWW) &amp;#039;Men and women are definitely from the same planet,&amp;#039; the report confidently concludes \u2013 hopefully metaphorically, otherwise it was a really big waste of time. And we&amp;#039;re happy with that. Because next time our boyfriends shout, &amp;#039;OMG, you&amp;#039;re such a WOMAN,&amp;#039; mid-argument, we can smile sweetly and reply, &amp;#039;Yes. And so are you.&amp;#039; Follow Rosie on Twitter at www.twitter.com/mullies "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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