Mares

There is a scientific reason why so many women connect so deeply with mares.

Not in a fluffy “women like mares because vibes” way.

In a nervous-system, lived-body, evolutionary sense.

Mares are biologically wired to be more vigilant. As breeding animals, they are often more sensitive to environmental threats, social pressure, and internal state. Their bodies track safety constantly. Small changes matter. Timing matters. Intention matters.

That heightened sensitivity gets labeled as “difficult”.

Women are often wired the same way.

Research consistently shows that women, on average, show higher relational attunement, emotional awareness, and threat detection. It’s not because women are fragile. Many have had to become skilled at reading subtle shifts in mood, power, and safety from an early age.

Your nervous system adapts when you grow up, having to notice tone before words. It adapts by sensing the mood before meaning. It also recognizes danger before it’s named.

Mares respond to that awareness.

They don’t trust bravado.

They don’t relax for dominance.

They settle when the body in front of them is regulated, congruent, and listening.

A mare doesn’t need you to be confident in the performative sense. She needs you to be honest in your body. And many women have spent their lives learning to read and regulate their bodies. Often their own, often others’, often at great personal cost.

So when a woman meets a mare, there’s recognition.

Not romance.

Not softness.

Recognition.

Two nervous systems that know what it is to be misunderstood. To be told they’re too much. To be corrected instead of listened to.

And when that connection works, it isn’t because the mare has been “handled”.

It’s because, for once, sensitivity wasn’t treated as a flaw.

That’s not magic.

That’s biology meeting lived experience.

And it explains a lot