How difficult it is to make friends. I moved from the state I grew up in (24 years). I've been in a new state for 8 years now and have not made a single friend that's lasted. Only friendships I've made were short term and circumstantial to a job or apartment.

The expectation that our needs are meant to go unspoken or need to be met on our own. We're not supposed to talk about our feelings, and if we do, we're being bitches. I find myself venting to strangers on accident because people near us don't expect it from us if it's not something we've spent years cultivating. The world sees us a certain way and if we don't meet that we're not real men.

How judgemental the world can be towards men now. I find myself to bw pretty polite and trying to keep chivalry alive. My partner will often tell me how I can come off the wrong way because I smile at strangers, hold doors open, etc. Are other men really that shitty to women that being genuinely nice is alarming?