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The Real Reason Men Struggle to Share Feelings #shorts #masculinity #friendship

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SoulWords—Rabbi Shais Taub

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Why does so many men have no close friends? Men don't feel close with someone just because they've been vulnerable with them. In fact, for men, being vulnerable prematurely can feel like artificially rushing the process of closeness. For men, what brings a feeling of closeness with another human being is loyalty. You stick with me through thick and through thin, and when we have shared harrowing experiences, brothers in arms, men who have been in battle together, literally or figuratively, that feeling of you've got my back, that loyalty, that forges closeness. And then a man can be vulnerable. But he doesn't achieve closeness through vulnerability, he achieves the closeness through loyalty, and then he can be vulnerable.