Psychology suggests men who are deeply unhappy in life but hide it well aren’t being strong — they’re running a performance that costs them every real connection they have, and the people closest to them almost never see it coming
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A growing body of research in emotion regulation and masculinity studies suggests that the men most visibly holding things together are, in many cases, the ones closest to falling apart. The literature on male emotional suppression (spanning clinical psychology, gender studies, and suicide prevention research) consistently identifies a pattern in which the very behaviours society rewards in men; composure, productivity, emotional restraint; are the same behaviours that erode their capacity for g
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