The below post from JEFF BROWN was in my newsfeed today. It really struck a cord with me. I believe there is so much truth to the fact that men who are conditioned to be protectors...armored men as he calls them... have difficulty showing up for themselves, as well as their partners. If they arent raised to get in touch with their feelings, they become blocked up with their own emotions. As parents, we have a role to play in helping our sons learn to acknowledge what they are feeling, name those emotions and express them in a safe and productive way. There is a way to raise boys into men that are BOTH strong and sensitive. This is the thing that many women seldom understand about armored men. They often focus on the fact that the men aren’t connecting with them. This is true, and they have every right to feel frustrated by this, but they also need to see the bigger picture. The reality is that many of those men aren’t connecting with themselves either. From the beginning, men have been cast in the role of warrior protector and their emotional armor is fundamental to the task. They are so saturated in their vigilant conditioning, so blocked up by their emotional holdings, that many of them cannot open their hearts to love’s mysteries. It’s not like they are consciously withholding intimacy- they simply have no idea how to experience it beyond the surrendered heart of orgasm, and they see surrender as an unconscious threat to their duty as protector. Vigilance and surrender make strange bedfellows… ~ Jeff Brown
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:17:34 +0000
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