Boy troubles

I woke up last night to my roommate's crying and sniffling. I guessed it was about her boyfriend because that is the only reason she is ever upset. I pretended to be asleep, but it was hard to fall back asleep, knowing she was crying to her boyfriend next to me. This morning we talked about why she was so upset and I asked if it was her boyfriend and she gave me a sad puppy face and nodded. She said it was many small things that added up to become one big problem and when she wanted to talk about it more with her boyfriend, he didn't answer his phone because he was sleeping. She said she called many times until he picked up because she was so upset that she couldn't sleep. I told her that my boyfriend is the same way when we disagree and she was happy to know that she wasn't alone. We bonded over the fact that it doesn't make sense to us that boys can sleep when we are still upset with each other, yet girls cannot just go to sleep and pretend nothing is wrong. I read about this in the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" in 11th grade for my Relationships class. I learned that men go to their caves, and women like to talk. It's so interesting to see how similar relationships work in other cultures and that even though many other aspects of relationships may be different, some are always the same.