Horney Article Paper In Karen Horney's "The Distrust Between the Sexes", she explains how a person's psychological history causes him/her to distrust people of the opposite sex because of certain expectations they might have. Longings for happiness, childhood reflections, and childhood conflicts are all things that invent these expectations. It was interesting to read that these ideas of women being inferior to men are rooted all the way from Adam and Eve. In the article Horney uses the Jewish culture as an example. They have no women idols; they see the woman’s ability to bear children as “partly denied and partly devaluated” because Eve was cursed to bear children in sorrow and because she tempted Adam to take a bite of the forbidden apple they see women as sexual temptresses, “who plunge men into misery”. While I was reading the article the only thing I couldn’t stop thinking about was what happened between my best friend and I, and it wasn’t just because his name happens to be Adam. We were best friends all throughout high school until our senior year. He was and still is the only person who ever understood me better than I even understand myself; it was like he could read my mind. I can say with complete confidence that I never had one romantic thought about him our whole friendship; it was just like we were meant to be best friends. I can’t speak for him but I can guess that he never held any romantic feelings for me either. We did everything together, went everywhere together, and told each other everything. At the start of senior year things started to get a little weird, he started to avoid me and chose to hang out with his guy friends more often than me. When I confronted him about it he told me that people had been talking about us and spreading rumors that we were in a relationship and he couldn’t have people thinking that because he was in love with