The only reason women want you to talk about your feelings is because they will use them as weapons against you later. I cried when my grandfather died in front of my girlfriend at the time. A few years later, during the breakup, she brought it up as one of the reasons she was 'disgusted' by me. Learned my lesson, only talk through emotional shit with male friends. They understand.
I distinctly remember my grandfather telling me that crying was “never ok”, even when I was like, 5, and seriously injured myself…
But he was Presbyterian as all fuck, and a hard, hard man, so…
Unfortunately that perhaps doesn’t go for all men of that time.
You’d be surprised at how cold some of them were. Though I appreciate that my family are not representative of wider reality. I’ve met plenty of older blokes who were much less… “Stoic” than that.
The only reason women want you to talk about your feelings is because they will use them as weapons against you later. I cried when my grandfather died in front of my girlfriend at the time. A few years later, during the breakup, she brought it up as one of the reasons she was 'disgusted' by me. Learned my lesson, only talk through emotional shit with male friends. They understand.
Some might have been.
I distinctly remember my grandfather telling me that crying was “never ok”, even when I was like, 5, and seriously injured myself…
But he was Presbyterian as all fuck, and a hard, hard man, so…
Unfortunately that perhaps doesn’t go for all men of that time.
You’d be surprised at how cold some of them were. Though I appreciate that my family are not representative of wider reality. I’ve met plenty of older blokes who were much less… “Stoic” than that.
But hey, they did their best, I guess.