I want to know what happens to these people (men) who don't develop emotionally? Their childhoods must have been very scary places to exist

Spitfire,
I can tell you that you're right on the money about this.
H. and I used to have talks, deep talks at that, in our earlier years of marriage. He did not have a very pleasant childhood once his father became a WAH for o.w. and his parents divorced. He was only about 12 and his world self-destructed. I believe the things that happened during this time frame really wrecked havoc on my H. and he has never recovered from it. He also has no idea how to be a good husband, because he had no proper role model for that.



Most of us really marry only once. First love endures, even unto our dying day. And we never really divorce.