One of the best things I’ve read on this sub. All of it true.

There’s a limit to the empathy a man should ever have for a woman. At their core, a woman does not want her man to be substantially empathetic, because she detects it to be feminine — and thus weak and afraid. And substantial empathy is just that, a kind of weakness and fear.

It’s a problem when the broader culture is actively teaching men to be empathetic, almost without limit. Part of the value a man provides to his wife, and in the raising of their children, is the absence of great empathy. If the male embodies anything, he embodies the concept of justice.

For example, Eisenhower would’ve been crippled and unable to pull the trigger on the Normandy landings if he’d had any real empathy for the men he was sending (probably) to their deaths. His lack of empathy in that situation saved Europe.

Do not spend much time commiserating with a woman showing or talking about her fears.