It’s Your Turn To Talk, Men. Your Partners Are Listening
You’ve waited long enough to share your emotions. Spill it.
Too many times, you’ve condemned yourself to stay quiet, to sit and listen to your partner all while boiling inside with the urge to spew your thoughts. The message to be strong and silent is probably one you’ve received since you were a young adult, maybe even a child. Effortlessly, it’s become intermingled with stereotypical reinforcements to suck it up, to be a man, to not show any emotions, and certainly never to cry. Men, you are not the only ones suffering the cliché, your SOs are at the mercy of such stilted compartmentalizing, too. A lot of us have become unnaturally conditioned to expect you to deliver the appropriate gesture or non-gesture.
Let’s break those early and archaic rules. It’s your turn, fellas. Let your partner know what’s on your mind. Your feelings, intuitions, and needs are important. Your input is vital. You’ve waited long enough. No matter if you’re sexual orientation, when you’re in a relationship, you have committed to living out the particular role to which you most readily identify.
In traditional couplings, women can be the transmitter of these clichés and often we do it without even knowing what we’re propagating…
