Men and friendly affection (Epstein)
December 4th, 2006 | Published in Friendship, Quotes | 1 Comment
Except on their deathbeds, men generally cannot tell other men how much they like them, or how much their friendship means to them. A man can do so, but at the risk of reducing the quality of the friendship.
–Joseph Epstein, Friendship (2006), p. 120
December 10th, 2006 at 9:22 am (#)
The whole reason behind that statemnt above is due to men’s fear of emotions & their belief that feeligs are ”underpowering them”,in simpler words feelings make them less than men(which they think they are)…
And to be fair this thought of their’s is not totally their fault society now adays is becoming much more complicated than before,with all the ”new kind of relations”that people werent aware of before…
which also puts more pressure on people(men especially)
that stands in the way of fluent expression of feelings.