Can anyone help me out as to why men (or women, I guess) do this? We've gone over and over this as to how key it is to communicate with each other but yet here we are.......again
He may be communicating in ways you can't understand (that are obvious to other men) and in fact, may be frustrated that "you don't listen".
I read FWO after reading "For Men Only" just to see if the author has a clue so as to judge if anything in FMO was reliable. It was an eye opener to me what you women don't know about us. Everything in there was pretty much "eh? isn't this obvious?" It's a short book, I read it in work at lunch in just over an hour.
As for giving up the game, in my case, it wasn't fun anymore (for some of us) when you can't do what you used to years ago. Even pickup games matter. If we can't do it right, we either retire to coach or just stop. It wasn't recreational. Hockey mattered that much to do it right. In fact, I resented those people over the years who just wanted to screw around.
Giving the gear away could have been his way of passing the torch. Just a thought. I don't know your sitch, but just wanted to pass on one case where giving up hockey is normal behavior.
