We are travelling, celebrating with your family, and I am stealing a moment to post this. You sent me this podcast from your friend (the one you told about our FLR). I think this should be required listening for all men. I feel like telling them "You don't have to live like you do! You can feel joy. You can feel anything. Emotions are okay."
This podcast (Lovelink.co episode 009) featuring therapist Terry Real is amazing. We recently transmogrified our relationship into something new and special, really grasping our emotional interplay and how our relationship works. We have been growing and discovering each other in new ways.
This podcast pretty much explains what we have gone through for the last decade, growing into our current form. It speaks to the damage that the emotional austerity enforced on men in our society does to all parties. Amazing. Thanks for sending me this link. Anyone reading this, man or woman, drop everything and listen to this guy talk.
https://www.lovelink.co/podcast