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Other men relate to this? It sorta hit home for me.

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Thats becuase men talk to other men about it....and men as a whole feel uncomfortable with feelings - so they joke them away.

And men try once , get shut down , and they close down .

The right people WILL listen, its just the wrongs ones who wont .

Personally, as a partner, ive been irrecoverably damaged by a mans need to hide his demons and failures.

I was blown away to find out what he had been hiding and not shared the burden of .

A decade later i got to understand his random anger , blame and outburts and violence from the burden he carried .

But it was a decade too late .

You have to speak up .

....and try again
......and again ,and again till you are heard .
life isnt easy . Sometimes you need to shout to be heard .

And you need to do it more than once.🤷‍♀️
fun4us2b · M
@OogieBoogie Sorry to hear you went through that...it's definitely a problem that needs some work...
@fun4us2b no, dont feel sorry for me....
Feel sorry for the man who is so shut down he destroyed love and a family .

It makes me so sad and mad , that men are socially conditioned to keep their burdens to themselves .
fun4us2b · M
@OogieBoogie Yeah - we need to put that aside when things are getting out of hand...
@fun4us2b men need to feel safe in their feelings.
Even with the societal changes , men still ridicule other men for being open or vulnerable.
Shit ....ive seen women ridicule men.

Its wrong.
We are human. We feel , we break , we fail .
But with just one person believing in us despite our fears, we can get back up again.

Yet men are shot down , and abused for any vulnerability. I
No wonder they hide it.
fun4us2b · M
@OogieBoogie Thanks for saying that and I agree (hence the OP) I really don't think there have been any changes for men...at least in my lifetime...
@fun4us2b there have. Its just you cant teach a whole older generation to change.
Men of younger gens have more emotional freedom . Older ones carry on their traditions 😔
fun4us2b · M
@OogieBoogie I hope you're right about the young ones...