Good for you, riding that wave of emotion. Tears are so cleansing & cathartic ~and ultimately healing. I am so grateful to experience and express the full range of emotions, especially since getting sober.
My experience with the men I dated during my open marriage & since separating from my to be ex is similar to yours. Men (especially men over age 45) are very disconnected from their emotions. And it’s not their fault. The culture has taught them not to feel and has punished them harshly when they expressed their feelings -other than anger. I am hopeful this is shifting a bit.
Also. F that guy for implying that you degraded yourself!
Perhaps apropos of your comments about scarcity of men who cry, Travis Kelce's crying at his brother Jason's recent retirement speech was a widely covered story in the national news.
Ugh. I've read both Splinters and More, and I have to say that lachrymose is just about the last word I'd use to describe either. Brave? Yes. I particularly loved how you described the realities of motherhood. I have a memoir coming out in the fall (One Bad Mother), and I tried to do this. Then I read More and was like, "well. Alrighty then!"
Good for you, riding that wave of emotion. Tears are so cleansing & cathartic ~and ultimately healing. I am so grateful to experience and express the full range of emotions, especially since getting sober.
My experience with the men I dated during my open marriage & since separating from my to be ex is similar to yours. Men (especially men over age 45) are very disconnected from their emotions. And it’s not their fault. The culture has taught them not to feel and has punished them harshly when they expressed their feelings -other than anger. I am hopeful this is shifting a bit.
Also. F that guy for implying that you degraded yourself!
Perhaps apropos of your comments about scarcity of men who cry, Travis Kelce's crying at his brother Jason's recent retirement speech was a widely covered story in the national news.
Ugh. I've read both Splinters and More, and I have to say that lachrymose is just about the last word I'd use to describe either. Brave? Yes. I particularly loved how you described the realities of motherhood. I have a memoir coming out in the fall (One Bad Mother), and I tried to do this. Then I read More and was like, "well. Alrighty then!"