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Originally Posted by Kitty
We need others to support us and make us feel valued. Your friend seems very unemotional and disconnected. And he may be. I don't know what his past was like or what formed these characteristics within him.
I know I could never say something like that to anyone. I wonder if he's ever been in a vulnerable situation?
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Excellent observation, Kitty
Yes, this is truly a man who operates on a 'management' mindset instead of an emotional one. Tries to take the emotion out of everything, emotions = bad. Over our friendship of many years I came to learn that his father is exactly the same way. We all learn it somewhere.
For me, I want to do my best to honor my emotions as an important part of me. In too many occasions I've tried to stuff them down and carry on as if I am fine and dandy. Thing is, I can still be "fine" and have emotions too.
(Hopefullly this makes sense.... eye blur fairy is visiting me today.)