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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure everyone has a different opinion but for me it's 2 things.

1.  Don't hide your feelings behind macho BS.  If something is going on that's bothering you, I want to be with someone who can talk about it and not keep it inside and let it fester or build up into something bigger 
2.  Understand my emotional needs as well.  I work a stressful and at times, mentally exhausting, job.   I love that I can vent to DH and [b]he knows what to[/b] do or [b]say[/b].

Everyone has different levels of it.  I have friends who definitely have a higher emotional level than I do.  [/quote]

That's the hardest part for men IMO. The way we respond when women need emotional support is well intentioned, but often women perceive it as wrong. Men aren't  emotional communicator. IMO this is why sometimes we just stay quiet and respond as if we are walking on eggshells because a no response is superior to a bad response. But I'm other cases a non response is seen as not caring.[/quote]
Yea, bullshit. If you were offered $500,000 tax-free to offer an empathetic response every time your wife needed it for the next year, you would do it. Your problem isn't that you can't; it's that you won't. You feel entitled to be an unreformed d!ckhead with women. That's why making an effort to be anything except your most obnoxious self feels like such a big, unfair deal.[/quote]

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