“I grew up in a household where I had to be a good boy to receive love which means you’ll love being with me at the start of the relationship because I’m gonna do everything I can to make you happy, but I have a deep fear of confrontation which means I avoid setting boundaries and I’ll probably burn myself out trying to please everyone. I’ll start to resent you, probably become passive aggressive because of years of suppressed anger and you’ll stop finding me attractive and start yearning for a man with more mature, masculine qualities.”
I never read something that resonated so much with me that I had to actually put things aside and write about it. I have always been one to mock social media and people talking about their feelings and relating it to memes or more but surprisingly enough I came across this one meme talking about emotions with men, and it hit quite hard because where I’m from you’re not supposed to have emotions and especially in the generation that I came from in a late 90s 2000s having emotions as men was a sign of weakness, even so having emotions in this generation will get you called sassy or more but alas let me continue. As I was going through and reading what this paragraph said it made me reflect on a lot of the emotions and relationships I’ve had in my life and in reality I have met some wonderful women, some wonderful people and more coincidentally enough now that I’m in my mid 30s I can actually look back and recognize.
I wasn’t ready to accept love or emotion from a lot of people.
For a long time I blamed my upbringing. If I’m honest I blamed the main women in my life as that was the example that was set for me. A lot of young men were brought up on hurt single mothers who’s main objective wasn’t to teach emotions and how to face the world but how to look up and respect the hurt woman within that household. This is why you have a lot of men who do not know how to handle their emotions as the masculinity that should have been present in the impressionable stages were missing.
Funnily enough a lot of men have now started to recognize their emotions and the trauma they may have endured and are internally trying to repair their PTSD but we also live in a generation where people are pulling out statistics and using phrasing to weaponize the male species which is scary in itself but the moment you have a debate with one of these social justice warriors there’s a 50% chance of getting cancelled.
Ridiculous… yes
Can you tell these new Gen babies anything they didn’t learn from Tik tok?…. No
Anywho, I’m waffling but sometimes it’s needed. I write because it’s needed. It’s a way of therapy for me and also a way to pen my emotions as again it’s hard for people to open up. Imagine telling someone how you feel or about family and there is ALWAYS a 50% chance they will “expose” you.
Again, this life we all live.
More so Calgary as this place is small as hell (same landmass as London but only about 1.5-2 mill population) is the worst for gossip and talking. It’s like a giant school where everyone is fucking everyone, everyone knows everyone and everyone talks about everyone like it does come back to you. In London if someone didn’t mess with you or didn’t wanna talk to you they would let it be known. Calgary they hate with a smile.
Not to long ago I had a situation were my name was moving around and I was talking to people I KNEW had my name in their mouth but for me to have some form of social interaction I have to play dumb.
I think that’s the hardest thing about living in Calgary and my emotions.
Half the things I put up with here….. I would never put up with back home so why am I?
Lack of friends?
Lack of human interaction?
Is this classed as sassy?