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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed. Conditioned. Men and boys have the same full range of emotions as females. Men are taught to repress certain displays of emotions. Emotions still remain.

Hugs OP. You sound like a great Dad.

Is it better to repress? Context. Men crying at work not socially OK. Keep the carrot, lose the stick.

FWIW, I’m more like a dude, I repress pretty much everything but still have feelings. You’d have to peel back an enormous layer of my onion self to really know me. And I’m a vulnerable huge feeler on the inside, like everyone else I assume.

We all carry emotional baggage. My kids don’t get why I rarely cry. I created emotional battle armor to hide the little scared girl on the inside.

It’s great you’re thinking about your son’s emotional range. To start, you need to model expressing uncomfortable feelings in healthy ways. I do too.

Woman [/quote]

Hormones influence emotions.

Men and women have different hormonal composition.

Some of it is nurture, but an equal amount if not more of it is nature.[/quote]

For sure, women and men are biologically, hormonally different. To what extent nature is a %, we’d have to create some pretty awful experiments to prove various theories on the matter.

I rarely cry. Not at work, not over spilled milk. I am calm as a cucumber and I’ve got raging amounts of estrogen. I was a first born with a lot of responsibilities and I was just born cool headed perhaps. Some may even think despondent. I’m an observer personality. In a crisis, I’m just logical. I’ve met many women and men like myself, there’s more to it than gender and hormones.

I did cry my eyes out after Sandy Hook. But I think anyone with a beating heart did the same.[/quote]

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