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He grew up in a family where it was a show of weakness to show feelings and to have emotions. His Dad was very hard on him and his siblings not to mention his Mother. He was working full time by the time he was 14, because that's what men did, they went to work. He's been shut off emotionally from the world for so long. How can I make it easier for him to get in touch with the feelings he has, not only for me but for the rest of the world too.

I can tell he cares about me, I see it in the way he looks at me, I feel it in the way he touches me. And how he talks to me. But whenever I approach the subject of feelings he acts like he has none at all. We have been seeing each other for over a year now. I keep thinking that if I show him how much I care he will come around, but I'm getting frustrated with his lack of emotion, and if he does show emotion the next day he will be very distant. It is driving me around the bend.