Love Life With Matthew Hussey 230: Why Men Don't Open Up | Rob Dial
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Mar 6, 2024 
The podcast delves into why men struggle to open up, childhood experiences impacting relationships, self-love, healing inner wounds, and achieving true fulfillment. It explores vulnerability, emotional baggage, selfishness origins, self-awareness in dating, self-worth, human growth, triggering statements in relationships, and reflections on vulnerability and friendship.
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Childhood Neglect Shaped Relationship Fears
- Rob describes his childhood with an alcoholic father who emotionally neglected him and then died when Rob was 15.
- This led Rob to believe love would leave him and shaped his early relationship patterns until he met Lauren.
The Glass Ceiling In His Dating Life
- Rob explains his dating pattern of hitting a 'glass ceiling' where he stopped opening up and connections fizzled out.
- He would distance himself, then chase back when lonely, repeating cycles that hurt partners and relationships.
Invite Therapy As Relationship Coaching
- See a therapist or relationship coach as a tool to uncover unconscious patterns and be 'seen' by a third party.
- Frame therapy as coaching to improve the relationship rather than as a sign something is broken.