
I feel like men have it rough but y'all never talk about it. I'm wanting to understand more about mens struggles in life

I feel like men have it rough but y'all never talk about it. I'm wanting to understand more about mens struggles in life
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Realizing that the measure of love we receive is based on our usefulness rather than being unconditional. This applies to marital relationships and any social structure. If we do not possess qualities like leadership, financial stability, or influence, we are deemed unworthy of love whether it's acknowledged on the forefront or not. A useless man will never be virtuous. As per God's design, men are inherently capable of attaining leadership, wealth, or influence, yet the journey is seldom straightforward. Life brings us highs and lows. There have been phases in my life when I've been penniless and despondent, and there have been times when I've been prosperous and content. I've experienced solitude with no friends to lean on, and I've also enjoyed the companionship of large social circles. During life's bleakest moments, the lack of sincere and genuine support can be extremely challenging.
It's advisable not to publicly display these challenging times as it generally doesn't yield any benefit. As a husband, part of my responsibility is to offer emotional stability to my wife. If I continually express doubts and insecurities about myself, her reliance on me as a pillar of strength may falter. My wife needs a steadfast rock to depend upon for her security. Bombarding her with all my negative emotions is selfish; I have a duty to shield her. This does not suggest suppressing all emotions, but rather maintaining a degree of stoicism amidst the turmoil that life inevitably presents us with.
The essence of successful manhood lies in effectively handling life's tumult and maintaining one's responsibilities regardless. Even during periods of depression, I ensure that I accomplish all that is required of me. My reliance isn't on fleeting happiness, for it ebbs and flows. Instead, I strive for grander life objectives beyond happiness, like a sense of purpose. Upholding this sense of purpose, through both challenging and favorable times, is of paramount importance.
You Siad: "As a husband, part of my responsibility is to offer emotional stability to my wife. If I continually express doubts and insecurities about myself, her reliance on me as a pillar of strength may falter. My wife needs a steadfast rock to depend upon for her security. Bombarding her with all my negative emotions is selfish; I have a duty to shield her."
But being a man you also know you will be under attack or bombarded daily, and the expectation is you will deal with it like the rock that you are, and the second you fault the dam will burst and havoc will ensue.
Why would a good God design men to not be loved unconditionally?
@KlinkyCoder it ensures that the best men breed the most and the species doesn't get weaker. At least, it used to. Society has turned dysgenic, and we're turning Idiocracy into a documentary.
1. We are on our own. Some of us may be fortunate enough to have family who can back us up, but most of us are completely on our own, and must handle whatever life throws at us, and all the responsibilities and expectations that are placed on us. NO ONE is coming to help us and NO ONE CARES about our struggles. The only backup plan or safety net we have is whatever we build for ourselves. While we pay into endless government programs, most of them exclude us. Most of us don't have the kinds of friends who would, say, take us in for more than a weekend in an emergency. Our survival is completely up to us alone.
2. We are never loved "for free" or unconditionally. We must always provide a return for everything we get, and even that is hardly a guarantee, but the second our contribution doesn't meet someone's standards, we are cut out.
3. We are EXPECTED to sacrifice ourselves for others in times of danger. And if we do, the MOST fortunate among us will get a ribbon and some tin, but most of us would get only a lifetime of pain, disability, or death. And not only is this no longer respected, it's not even acknowledged. The punchline is "hundreds of thousands of men are maimed or killed; women most affected." We are often even attacked and degraded for this, with terms like "toxic masculinity" and "the patriarchy."
4. Family law in the US, and generally in the west, is absolutely against men. Only 10% of men get equal custody of their children in divorce, for example, and there are countless ways that the courts screw over men, and tens of thousands of men bankrupt themselves trying to fight for their families in court. This is a big part of the reason why men aren't marrying or having children today.
5. Men do the vast majority of the dirty or dangerous jobs.
The thing is, men for the most part aren't complainers. The things we face are very tough, but we'll face them, because that's what it is to be a man. But to have to face them AND to be utterly disrespected and dismissed or even vilified for doing so (knowing full well we'll be vilified if we don't), that's just too much, and a lot of men are checking out as a result. They'll make enough to put a roof over their head and food in their belly, but otherwise they'll stay home, watch TV, play video games, and shut out the world, because why should they do more, when they're attacked for doing so? That's the main struggle for men today.
societal expectations that are static and non-negotiable. the term "real man" exists for a reason and it's not necessarily a good thing considering there are factors outside of a man's control that he can often be judged for. some expectations can be unrealistic and impossible to reach without fundamentally changing the person entirely
realizing the sheer loneliness a man can truly have. no one is there to help them. not women, not children and not even other men. only he can fix his problems assuming they can even be fixed. then he is expected to fix someone else's problems
an effort is often made by society to destroy any freedom of thought that doesn't align with the unwritten rules that society has put out. for example competitiveness is seen as toxic but this belief has led to many boys falling behind in education and later on in the workplace. the natural competitiveness of males still exists but it's being used in a feminized way like gossip, backstabbing, character assassinations etc.
while not actually crucial to survival, female validation is heavily recommended to the point it becomes a survival tool. history suggests that death is often associated with a lack of female validation no matter how much a man tries to resist this notion. e. g. for a man to not be viewed by society as a creep or rapist, he would need multiple non-related women to vouch for his character. this is also backed up by the fact that suicide rates are much higher in single men than taken men. in essence it forces men to need women more in order to survive, not necessarily in terms of food, water and physical security but via social credits and protection. importance and recognition is needed in men, not just as expendable and disposable sacrificial lambs called to give their lives away when society needs them to give their lives away e. g. like in wars or on a sinking ship
not being allowed to actually express their emotions and reveal their problems to women and stranger men. no matter how many times, society says it's ok for men to cry, it only ends in ridicule e. g. Jordan Peterson being labeled an incel because he got emotional over the thought of young men committing suicide and lacking purpose
the real hard part is knowing this isn't just a one person issue. it's happening amongst billions of men who don't even realize it's happening and while it'll be ideal to try and fix every man's problems, it's impossible not just because of sheer numbers but because it impedes on another man's life e. g. if every single man was a multi-millionaire, some men who were in the top 20% now get pushed back into the bottom 80% and some men in the bottom 80% get pushed up to the top 20%
For me, I don't want unconditional love (if someone loved me regardless of what I did or who I am, then they don't love me for what I do or who I am right?). But one of the biggest pains for me is feeling objectified.
My feelings and desires are not there to inform someone who I am, but instead there to judge how manly I am. My job isn't a reflection of me or my work ethic, but to represent how good of a 'man' I can be to a partner. My hobbies aren't about what I enjoy and would like to share with a partner, they're to indicate my 'manliness maturity'. My intelligence and wittiness is irrelevant, my sense of humor is only there to be a 'red flag' if it's too strange or silly. My body is just there to please, and any body image issues is a sign of 'unmanliness' and to be detested rather than empathized with. The list goes on, but in the end I matter less than my ability to be a man.
It slowly tears you apart when so much of what you hear and see discredits your individuality and agency. Advertising with stupid dads or hunks, strong heroes or neurotic villains, songs sung by men who care about manly things, songs sung by women about how manly men should be... It doesn't matter if not everything is like this; there are movies where there are guys are portrayed as not fitting this idea of all consuming masculinity, that are allowed to fail or be vulnerable and are loved. But our minds naturally gravitate towards the negative, and over time the skew towards objectification becomes like a loudspeaker in your ear, creaming at you to shut all the things that make you a yourself away, and be a good boxed and labelled man for everyone's sake.
It took me more than decade to say no. Not just to the ever present ridicule and objectification society levied in the sake of 'manliness', but to myself as well. Telling myself I was wrong to think of myself in terms of being a man, rather than just BEING.
With all that though, there's a second parallel poison; that all men are monsters. 'Men just want one thing', 'Men are rapists', 'Guys are so uncaring', 'Men are violent', etc. Sometimes we hear this in its most extreme form, but even more we here it and see it subtly implied. When macho guys are portrayed as the norm on TV, when creeps are showcased in drama, and much more... It's often used to highly how a named character guy is some how exceptional. And you might think that's good, but from a guys perspective it's damning.
Because from a guys perspective, we're being told that those thugs, those macho men, and the creeps are the normal. That a guy being a good person is some how extra-ordinary and should be treated like something special and unique. Imagine being told you have to be a super hero in order to be a decent person, and that anything less means you're just a stereotype of toxic masculinity. Over and over, through some of the most common tropes to establish someone as just being a decent individual that you could never hope to be.
Taken together, being told to box ourselves away, and being told we can only escape being monsters by being truly exceptional? We learn to tear ourselves apart until we fit into those boxes, or reject decency all together.
Obviously not every guy feels these to an extreme, but it's always there chipping away at our confidence over time. That's the hardest part of being a guy, is not letting yourself buy into the negativity, or believing that no one will care.
Right now things have changed so much from the traditional roles it is hard to keep up.
Open a door for a women and you get chastised for doing that making her think that you think she is unable to do it for herself, don't open the door then you are impolite and they won't want to have anything to do with you.
My age group we were taught to his our feelings, if you were hurt shake it off, don't be weak, you don't show your emotions, work like a plow mule.
Now especially in the fire service all of that comes back to haunt you.
So slowly it is becoming more acceptable to talk about things, yet many just doorknob how because we were never taught those skills.
We are losing a lot of good people across the country.
Suicide, PTSD, drug and alcohol addiction, more reports of abuse, and it seems to be getting worse.
We have things in place to help, but now those types of interventions are now being questioned as to if they do more harm than good.
We can talk to each other, but many men and women don't want to be seen as weak.
I will talk to people 1 on 1 just to see how they are doing, especially after a bad call, and I usually get I'm fine.
Even with all of the years I have been on there are things that still bother me, so I know others have things that are hard for them to deal with, but it's hard to get them to open up.
The stigma that is attached to that is that they are weak and should just suck it up.
I know I haven't escaped unscathed over the years, there are times you drive past a certain spot and memories cone back like it was an hour before.
The sounds, the smells, people's reactions, yet there you are dealing with everything.
If a lay person walked into a station after a bad call they might think we are the most uncaring people on the planet, how can you joke and laught at a time like this.
It's called gallows humor, it is a release mechanism that helps keep us sane and able to get back to work, but the memories never go away.
So if you are ever talking to a soldier, police officer, Firefighter
/medic don't ask them what is the worst call you have ever been on. You are asking them to relive their worst day ever for your amusement.
Even if they don't say anything it is too late.
That memory has come out of hiding.
@apple1996 Same thing as women; the hardest part is the standard of mass consciousness. If you go against it you lose harmony with majority of the population of the world. The more you go against it, the less you are in harmony with the average person.
However, the more you go against it the better or much worse your life will be.
People in prison do it. People in million dollar houses do it.
The people who do what is acceptable and expected live in the middle. That is most people.
The hardest part is ignorance + mass conditioning.
People are literally being brainwash and really it's mind-washed not brainwashed.
And because less than probably 1% of the population understand that and even less have fully integrated it with their behavior you have people opening themselves up to being brainwashed everyday of their lives. They don't even know what's happening.
The hardest part is not having ownership of your own mind because you give it away without even knowing you're doing it. How can anyone live the way they want, if not by luck, if they don't have control over themselves. But ignorance is by far the worse thing. Because most don't even know that they don't know what's happening and that's just talking about 1 thing. We're all being brainwashed with false thinking aka the serpent. On top of that we are brainwashed to sin. I don't even sin in the same way religions do. Everything starts in the mind and we are trained to accept things that literally take us downward. I mean really I'm doing it this very second in typing all of this. Things don't get better by focusing on the problem. Socrates knew this. The Bible teaches this. All the wisemen throughout the ages knew this. William James the father of American Psychology knew this. That's why he talked about attitude so much. Most people don't understand attitude. Attitude is your thoughts, feelings, and actions all together. Once you understand it, it's a matter of discipline your attitude until it is habit and apart of you. That's not a bad place to be considering most are ignorant. But if u never make your wise thoughts apart of your behavior, in the end it's the same.
I'm not saying the world is brainwashing us downward on purpose or evil. Marketing agency know. But 99% of people don't really know. Science is so behind because the brain is the main instrument of the mind and it can be hard to study the live brain.
I literally read a book talking about new discoveries. The book taught me nothing new. I can watch an old seminar from the 80s that taught me everything about what new science has discovered. I can read books from the early 1900s about the same thing.
But because science hasn't caught up, the world is retarded in progress. Science is so behind Eastern teachings. Yet they always agree in the end.
So it's the same as women... Women just accept different ideas and problems. They are brainwashed on different ideas and many are the same. We are programmed before we can even really think for ourselves. by the way this site is extremely bad for the mind. Many of the topics are negative. People only receive what they believe. Real belief, not conscious belief.
Think about the other comments... "limit the emotions you can share"
"expect to... Provide" It's all brainwashing. They can choose to live how they want but they dont because they are brainwashed. If you can control someones thinking you control them. If you wanna predict a Childs success just look at their conditioning. It will tell you everything you want to know because it causes results.
I'll give a few things:
It's really sick. Meanwhile single women often behave more desperately than single men. To the point of advertising it on social media or even trying to playfully say to a guy that she's single in the hopes he'll ask her out. These chicks are more desperate for sex than the dudes and literally die inside from being alone, to the point where they will start blaming men for why no guy seems interested.
Millions of things, if you're 1 in the U. S. As an example, I don't talk about my upbringing. There are reasons for this, namely, people THINK they know, but they don't know a damn thing. Example. I was volunteering at a place I have been for years... giving away my own money, bus passes, food and new clothes to families, many of them single moms. I did it every Saturday. What many of them didn't know, is that I was homeless when I was doing it. Sleeping on the concrete. I just didn't "look" like it. But I bought my own clothes on eBay, worked temp gigs at MLS games, worked as a dishwasher. 1 day, I was in that church during a giveaway talking with a male friend. This typical college girl, blonde, full of bubbly "knowledge" interjected. She went on and on about Metoo... how they have to be "aware and alert for rapists, because men are that way you know?" In a calm voice I stared at her and asked, "Miss, have you ever been raped?" She barely skips a beat with her classroom nonsense... replies waving her hand, "Well no, but my professor says..." And I IMMEDIATELY cut her off with a direct blunt repeat, a little more forcefully, "Miss, that's not what I asked. Have YOU EVER BEEN RAPED?" She now got the hint... a few seconds of silence, and replied, "No." I stared at her and simply replied, "I have. When I was a toddler, by a foster mom. It still gives me flashback nightmares where I wake up half moaning, half screaming. I want you to know how much I appreciate being called a perp, by the very people who have victimized me themselves, and whom I now help now." THIS is what we live with every day... and people REALLY WONDER why they sometimes tell me, "You don't look approachable." Gee genius, I wonder why? I mean, you're so "educated." Figure it out.😒
Mmm... those that don't trust... usually once trusted too much, and we're burned. In my case, it was by a person, so much as it was by an ideal. Everything I was told when I was little was a lie, in this country. Hard work, sacrifice, treating people with courtesy, etc. It paid off many years ago, but that's not the world we're living in now. I once trusted that ideal, and it smashed my heart, soul, body and nearly life... flat. People react differently when that happens. I choose to withdraw. I love animals, I rescue them. I shut the door. I like silence, and seeing them spoiled. Towards people in the mainstream... I feel nothing. Apathy. Animals and little kids should be trusted ALWAYS. They will ALWAYS let you know... if something is amiss, so pay attention. They're not trying to scheme a Cashapp out of you or get elected or get on reality tv. They only want to know... good... and bad... nothing else.
We don't really talk about it because the number one thing you have to learn to accept as a real man, is that you got no excuse for shit. There is no victim status, and there is nobody else to blame for your shit but yourself. So you just take it like a man and own your shit without a word. Nothing unfair about being a man... you apparently deserve whatever shit a person deals out because scene you are a man you are expected to take that pile of shit and deal with it.
We all know the second we try to say something about it, we will be called down for it... because lets be honest a woman can do everything a man can do... right? NOT, but don't say that out loud.
So, the hardest thing about being man, is that you are the scape goat for everyone to blame. The second you open your mouth to say anything, you will be called down for sexist, racist or for shaming or being insensitive or unempathetic... and usually this by everyone else who literally doesn't give a shit you, because you are just some guys. The expectation is that you as man will either take it for what it is or remain silent, until you don't then holy shit you would think the sky was falling!!!
So, you learn to keep your mouth shut and say nothing... because if you open your blow hole, some weak ass, over sensitive, crybaby will get their feelings hurt, and apparently their feelings are more important or valued to society then some man's own feelings.
Boy where do I even begin?
No uterus, no opinion - yet if you decide to keep the kid I have to pay child support. In thre case that I want to keep the kid, my opinion don't matter. Even in the case of divorce, the mother's general win more.
Men's mental health matters - unless it interferes with women, minorities or my ability to work or provide for my family.
I could go on but what's the use
@Apple1996 thats sexist to say... but it's okay we are just men. We will just take it on the chin without saying shaming things. To be a man, means we must respect woman... but they kick us around like dirt... we just shut up and take it.
Like you just said to every man reading this thread, that its biological so us men are secondary human chain of evolution. Like that's so dismissive... but as men we are expected to accept being dismissed.
@Apple1996
Now that is the biggest pile of BULLSHIT I have ever seen.
The ungratefulness of society, we do all the hard work and get shit back. No wonder that we have stopped spoiling women because unlike them we see and learn patterns. You need to reward good behavior and punish bad. If you treat men bad you don't deserve good treatment from them. So if you want honesty you need to reward it, especially if it's a truth you don't like, otherwise you encourage lying. So maybe you should relies that acting emotional is what causing society to be run like it was run by 5 year olds. Since it's no longer men in charge in many important areas.
It kinda sucks having to carry more responsibility, according to society. When I was hospitalized for diabetes, and my foot was broken, my aunt's cousin told me I should still be working. She was rich though, so I don't think she understood the value of a dollar.
What also sucks about being a guy is getting hard all the time, and then it sticks out of my pants. Girls can hide it when they're horny! Then if a guy doesn't have sex or an orgasm in a while, his body does it form him.
Then girls always come to me with all their problems. ALL their problems. I don't mind helping them, but most of them take advantage of me! Yeah, it sucks being a guy. People have all these expectations of you!
It's really just processing/dealing with emotions and living up to expectations of being a man. However, I don't see it as a "a terrible burden men must deal with" and more so that it is what it is. I appreciate aspects of the fact men should be stoic to a healthy degree, but there definitely can be negative aspects of it. Also, I do think men who cannot handle the pressure or any personal issue (s) do often have extreme reactions to it. It's apart of why you get more school shooters that are male, deaths by suicide, and the recent increase in incels.
Anway, I don't think about it much, since I do not see the point to. I'd rather focus on important things to me rather than something I cannot change.
I think the biggest issues are this idea that if you fail, you are worthless, (success = value) and if you succeed it's because of privilege not hard work. It's an expectation of success yet success is because of oppression, so it's this trap of you can't fail because there are few safety nets available to guys, but you can't succeed because it reinforces the stereotype of a successful male. There's this internal perception that guys are just disposable and simply don't count, while simultaneously being told that we live in a patriarchy and have all of the power. Yet feeling absolutely powerless, does this make sense?
By my reckoning, the greatest challenge of being born male is the constant, nagging fear of unfulfilled expectations -- most of which are often both self created and unrealistic. Men, in general are generally expected to do amazing, ridiculous things, rather than just being hard working, efficient and reliable. This inevitably leads to disappointment and dissolution with oneself. This is my opinion only.
True, but we also bring it on ourselves. For example, studies have shown that women instinctively know which men they're capable of becoming mates with and which ones are out of their reach, whereas a man, no matter how unattractive and undesirable he is, will nevertheless try to date an exceptionally attractive woman whom he has no realistic possibility of dating.
Well, the way most guys go after women, that's very true. I have a kind of perverted way of pursuing a beautiful woman whom I know I'll never be physically intimate with, in that I'll try to encourage her to let me spoil her and/or do various favors, tasks, chores, errands, etc, with the understanding that I want to do these things for her simply because I enjoy it. I think one of the most beautiful things a guy can do for a woman is to basically say, 'I know I'm not going to be able to have sex with you -- I just want to spoil you and kiss your ass'
I know, right? I know some women are uncomfortable when a guy wants to spoil them with no strings attached, because they either think there must be a catch or they don't think it's right to let a guy do that for them when they're in a relationship with another guy. Strange as it may sound, a beautiful woman who has a boyfriend and is having sex regularly is unbelievably attractive for guys like me, who just enjoy being teased and frustrated by her... lol
The Loneliness, We experience it so much more than you Girls will ever do and it is just so much more extreme.
There would be at least about 60 to 70% of Men not even Dating right now let alone having Sex.
We don't talk about it to you Girls because we know you are not going to change and it usually makes us look Feminine and usually Unattractive to you Girls.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/C9ONWHXCsrkhttps://youtu.be/C9ONWHXCsrkProbably constantly getting shat on and reminded that we're reason society sucks. It really gets old fast.
Women blame us for everything. We get no support in basically any area of life. Our friendships generally suck because other men are even less supportive than women. Everyone is constantly trying to take things from us.
I think most men would just be happy to have some basic acknowledgement of the sheer amount of crap we put up with.
I appreciate you taking the time to write this though. It's nice to see someone trying to call attention to the situation.
As I a man personally I don't see my life is hard or challenging just because am a man.
Gender is irrelevant in my personal opinion.
Life has its natural ups and downs and base on your decision making you will either have a good life or bad life.
In my case, I made stupid choices in my life when younger which led to some painful experiences but I have learned better and improved myself, now my life is decent and hoping to get better.
Life is truly what you make it and it's base on your decision making wheather you are a man or woman.
I think the fact that we're expected to be better than girls at almost everything. Like not just physical stuff, it's like people expect us to just be better at everything and if we're not then it's "Being beaten by a girl".
Also the divorce and relationship stats are firmly stacked against us with no signs of changing.
Currently the only two options politically are these:
Leftists who basically constantly tell us we're the problem (Especially straight white men)
Conservatives who are all about the traditional masculine roles which can get toxic very quickly.
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Having testicles.
Being pestered to share my feelings and thoughts. Thats not really hard just an annoyance that men face when in a relationship. I'm just sitting and watching tv why does that require an in depth questionnaire about my thoughts. Lol
I'd say the pressure put onto men by society. Women have plenty opinions on what a "real man" is and its largely unattainable to the average male. Then you have the pissing contests. They can be hard to avoid. Good ole ego. I work in a male dominate job and see about 20 pissing contests everyday. Its tiresome to try and be goaded into one and having to listen to all the rest.
A lot of guys I know are working themselves to death for a family they rarely get to see. 60-70 hour work weeks and then get bitched at for not contributing enough.
Thats just a few.
You should see the post here where the guy asks if he's an incel because he is a kissless virgin at 37, when his coworkers found out the men started bullying him and the women started treating him like a leper. The guy ultimately has to leave his job. It made me sick with rage to hear about how they mercilessly kicked a guy who was already down. I obviously don't condone mass shootings but the post did give me a lot of insight as to why some of these incels do that.
Your feelings don't matter no matter how much in pain you are. Its just so hard to trust people who say ''its ok to vent'' when they tend to use it against us. And apparently, ''its all in our heads'' if you talk about.
Other than that, to be physically valuable, being just average may not be enough because we rust so easily.
a guy who don't go through pain will just be in pain and get all the shame and blame.
Also, its hard to love kids if you're a man. People are just so paranoid with seeing Men with kids.
I think we experiment an extreme loneliness compared to women... and that leads us to depresion and a lot of bad things...
We also have a lot of problems because is expected us to be proactive and be the knes who always ask to girls or aproach them... Its so which ks very tiring...
Also some men are really scared of society about how to treat women in general like "what if we are looking in one direction and then a woman comes and yell at us thay we are staring at her? Everybody will think we are pervs and will take her side all the time..."
Men deal with tons of problems (like women do) but usually its expected that the men are cool and not to feel bad about how we are the punching bag of society...
Lack of physical affection. Probably the best feeling I’ve ever felt in my life is when I cuddled a girl for the first time in like 6 years. I mean wow. I could not get enough. I can easily go a year without so much as a hug but women probably cannot even conceive of what that feels like.
Men definitely have it rough, especially men like myself who are actually trying to live a good life. I am married, have two kids, and my wife don’t work. You would think I’m miserable. I’m not. In fact, I couldn’t be happier. It took A LOT of work to get where I’m at, but now that I’m established, it’s awesome. I think more people should actually try to live right, instead of just getting on with life.
You play videogames? RPGs like Fallout? Where you need to build up your character and none of the other NPC characters gives a shit about you till you earn some respect, have knowledge, have money and power. That is how mans life is BUT IT IS ACTUALLY REAL.
Perhaps saving him his cum sperm load as you love that 😊😅
Nice question, as it’s men mental health month so i respect you for asking
Dating way, the man has all the responsibility on approach and etc
You know?
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Not being able to be open about emotions because it is seen as an unattractive trait, that no one wants to listen to, or deal with, so we keep it inside giving us more stress.
Men are also seen as "the provider" in society, which people in dating abuse for their own selfish gains, while the guy looks for romance.
Not really sure I don't really think of life as a struggle. Things happen and I take it on no matter what it is take care of it and move on.
If any thing it's keeping my friends out of bathrooms fuckers need to lift the toilet seat I've actually banned certain guys can't use my bath room
I think the biggest problem is the struggle of identity and the question of figuring what a man is what are supposed to do and who they want to be. I think what kills guys the most when they feel useless because no one ever told them when they did something well.
I think many guys struggle with either or all of things. That's why they follow gurus like the Tates since these guys seem to have a formular or some way to get further a long and avoid temptations like video games, porn and drugs.
Being expected to carry the backbone of our society. And the women in it are very ungrateful and even shit on men at times. A man can work three jobs, be great with his money, only have 100k in the bank but debt free. And an onlyfans bimbo who flashes he tits can get a million and shit on the guy working his ass off at an actual respectable job.
Not dissing on women that make that kind of money on pathetic, weak men that will pay. But the fact that women sexuality is the one thing that a woman can bank on to monetize, and if she didn’t have that she would be a broke bum on the street is something they hold over men. That among other things makes it tough to be men out here.
Honestly, I think the toughest part of being a man, is being a husband and father, the responsibility is beyond my comprehension, when a man has to show what it means to have to shoulder that responsibility, to be a good father and husband to his wife and children... For me that is what is hard to be a man,... a responsible man.
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