You guys aren't going to beleive this 3

[EastTN]

The thesis in ... is that we don't know how to be men. We come from broken homes, or homes where dad wasn't really present because he was working. We didn't have male role models. Lots of us swore at a young age not to be anything like our fathers.

We know how to be what women THINK a man should be.

It turns out that that's not actually what they want. So we try harder to be what our mothers, and our preschool and elementary school teachers told us we were supposed to be. We think that if we do that, if we just try hard enough, if we put our partners (and everyone else) first, our lives will be what we want them to be.

Except that's not how it works, and we fail again. So we try harder and the cycle repeats.

It's hard reading something like this and seeing so much of yourself in it.