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[color:"blue"] ………It's just hard for me to fit that into one of my man emotions. I'm trying to cram a square peg into a round hole.
It doesn't fit into:
1)Happy
2)Normal
3)Drunk
4)Angry
Previously, before A awareness 101, If it didn't fit in one, two, or three it made me angry.
Now I'm dealing with all these recently developed "chick" emotions. This is all new to me. I've had a total change of life… [/color]
Do any of you other guys feel like this?
Do you all think this is permanent?
What are some of the new emotions that men feel from this that they never really had much of before?
Opinions from you ladies are welcome also.
Plank.
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Plank,
I don't know what to tell you except that emotions are not good or bad, they just are. Emotions give you important messages. It is vitally important to acknowledge them, listen to them. You can deal with your emotions in positive or negative ways.
I don't believe that men do not have just as many emotions as women do nor can I believe that they do not experience them as intensely. I think that many societies just condition men to supress them. I'm sure there is interesting literature on this subject...
Me BS 44
XH 45
M 20 years
D19
D12
DDay 11.29.04
Separated 12.29.04
Plan A 24.02.05
Plan B 10.9.05
Plan D 2.2.06
Divorce 13.6.06
OW - former friend and D12's x-godmother (Skunkypoo)
OWH - philander, XH's former best friend (still shares skunkypoo with XH)
Anger = drinking a rat poison and waiting/wishing the rat would notice you drink it and the rat die from it.
Redhat
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Try a book called "Emotional Intelligence". It is a good book with help in improving your understanding of your emotions. Helped me a lot.
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I'm tempted to say that this is oxymoranic. Emotional growth in men? Inconceivable! (See the Princess Bride to get that joke.)
Seriously, I think that getting "in touch" with your feminine side, especially the emotions, is going to make you a better man. Walking on the other side of the block, like me learning to retile my bathroom, is a good and deepening experience. The fact that you are able to even admit to "chick" emotions is a wonderful thing.
Gggggooooolllllyyyyy, next thing you know, you'll start eatin' quiche.
Grapes are versatile. Grapes can be sour, sweet, sublime as wine and fabulous even when old and dried out.
Me: BS
XCH: Clueless
2-DS: Bigger than me
1-DD: Now also bigger than me!
5/6: Personally served CH with divorce papers
6/6: CH F? wants to time to see if M can be saved
7/6: FCH reenters our lives to work on marriage but secretly signs papers to start divorce...what's that about?
Mediation set for November
Final dissolution in January 2007.
2008 and beyond: Life goes on...
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