Shopping arguments with your spouse - Why Women love to Shop and Men hate it?

Though it's not a general phenomenon but we may witness or even experience ourselves that weekend shopping sometimes ends up into an argument or a fight. 

Sometimes a wife or a girlfriend may interpret their partner’s shopping boredom as; “my partner does not care for my liking (how much I love to shop) or he does not understand that by jumping from shop to shop I am buying best for the family”. Similarly, a man may find his partner’s shopping habit as a wastage of time or may interpret that his partner can't make a good purchase decision. But in reality that is not always the case. According to some recent studies, the reason lies back in the Caveman times.

In the caveman times, men used to hunt for wild animals while women used to search and gather plants, nuts, fruit, and vegetables. Anthropologists believe that after living thousands of years by hunting and gathering things, the instinct still exists in us from our ancestors. When most women shop, they are in more of a 'gathering' mode checking shop to shop (like in old days they searched for best fruits, vegetables and from tree to tree). They spend a lot of time examining the food, checking its freshness and edibility, and they discard quite a lot of it.

In the same way, men's shopping habits may be related to their hunting heritage - have one thing in mind: - to kill an animal and go home. They don’t want to waste time browsing, and it’s not so necessary for them to examine their food acquisitions.

Hence Psychologist Shivani Misri Sadhoo suggests to all couples to respect each other's point of view while doing the weekend shopping and try to give your best to make the day memorable.