Grown Women  

Girls   want to control the man in their life.  
Grown women   know that if he's truly hers, he doesn't need controlling.  
Girls   check you for not calling them.  
Grown women   are too busy to realize you hadn't.  

Girls   are afraid to be alone.
Grown women   revel in it-using it as a time for personal growth.

Girls   ignore the good guys.
Grown women   ignore the bad guys.
 
Girls   make you come home.  
Grown women   make you want to come home.  

Girls   leave their schedule wide-open and wait for a guy to call and make plans.  
Grown women make their own plans and nicely tell the guy to get in where he fits.  

Girls   worry about not being pretty and/or good enough  
for their man.  
Grown women   know that they are pretty and/or good enough for any man.  

Girls   try to monopolize all their man's time (i.e., don't want him hanging with his friends).  
Grown women   realize that a lil' bit of space makes the 'together time' even more special-and goes to kick it with her own friends. 
 
Girls   think a guy crying is weak.  
Grown women   offer their shoulder and a tissue.

Girls   want to be spoiled and 'tell' their man so.
Grown   women 'show' him and make him comfortable enough to reciprocate without fear of losing his 'manhood'.  

Girls   get hurt by one man and make all men pay for it.  
Grown women   know that was just one man.

Girls   fall in love and chase aimlessly after the object of their affection, ignoring all 'signs'.
Grown women  know that sometimes the one you love, doesn't always love you back-and move on, without bitterness.