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So women say they want that, and they think that they truly mean it when they say they want that.
But in couples therapy, I'll I'll see something like a woman will come in, and and you know, she'll say that exact thing to her partner. You know, "I really want you to open up. I feel like we're not connecting. I want you to be more vulnerable with me. I want you to tell me what's going on inside." And if he does, and let's say he starts crying, tears up, or really starts crying, she inevitably will have this reaction of, "I don't feel safe when he doesn't open up to me because I don't feel connected to him, but I don't feel safe when he's that vulnerable with me either," because there's something, just some cultural programming in her around what it's like to be with a man who's crying or a man who is vulnerable.