6.11 Lets talk about male friendships with Max Dickins
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Male Mental Ill Health
For male friendships, it's comfort, not confession. He often then goes and seeks something externally from the relationship. So you talk about a relationship, a man seeking sex outside the relationship. That could have a number of causes, obviously, but a big one would be it's almost a cry for help. It's because men, for intimacy, men is so conflated with sex. If we're not experiencing intimacy emotionally, we'll think, I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll go and have sex because that will be. I'll get sexual intimacy. And that will fill that void enough. Absolutely.
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