Reception
The song received a "thumbs up" review from the country music review site The 9513. Reviewer Matt C. stated that the central character (i.e., Paisley's character in the song) "offer abundant examples of a woman's imperfections while portraying himself as the guy who tolerates it all out of the goodness of his heart…look like a good guy without degrading his female companion". He considered it a superior counterpart to Paisley's late 2003-early 2004 single "Little Moments" (in which the lead character lists off various mistakes his wife has made before admitting that he "live for little moments like that"), but, unlike with "Little Moments", the reviewer thought that the gender observations in "Waitin' on a Woman" were "delicately appropriate rather than insensitively obtuse". Leeann Ward, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it a B rating. Ward said that while the song with its "sluggish melody, is built on the stereotype that a woman is always late, there is a sweetness about the sentiment’s presentation that rescues it."
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