Joe Middleton inspired this one. In fact, Joe said this.
The line of discussion was a facetious rant about how the men are never the problem, it’s the women. This was in reference to a divorce nearby where they have small children and are building a new home and the wife up and left, so to speak. I was calling Joe’s recent wife leaving cake in reference to this divorce. Then I mentioned that it’s never the men who cause this stuff, only the women. And the quote was born.
The joke is that the men are perfect and the woman are problematic.
We are never the problem, to us.