07/06/2026
I didn’t always understand this…
For a long time (and sometimes it’s still difficult)
I took the silence personally. 🫣
I mistook emotional unavailability for not caring.
I thought if someone loved you enough, they would just… open up.
Eventually. If you were patient enough. Safe enough. Good enough. 😢
What I understand now, through my own life and through the work I do, is that most men were never given the tools. Not because they didn’t want to connect. But because connection, vulnerability, and emotional honesty were quietly and consistently trained out of them from the time they were small boys. 😢
That doesn’t make the impact on the people around them any less real. But it does change how we look at it. And it changes what becomes possible. 🩷
If this resonates, save it. And share it with someone who needs to read it today.
Lots of love 💕
Selina