Men’s fear of partner conflict may lead to withholding.
About Avrum G. Weiss, Ph.D.
Why Men Criticize Women for Being ‘Needy’
Personal Perspective: It might be to protect their own vulnerability.
Personal Perspective: It might be to protect their own vulnerability.
Why Some Couples Play ‘Hot Potato’ With Anxiety
Spreading the load helps men and women.
Spreading the load helps men and women.
Why Couples Disagree About What’s Safe
How to get unstuck from your relationship roles.
How to get unstuck from your relationship roles.
How To Know if You Have a Parent-Child Marriage
This might explain some of the conflict in your relationship.
This might explain some of the conflict in your relationship.
Men’s Fears of Women in Intimate Relationships
Sympathy for the privileged?
Sympathy for the privileged?
Men’s Fears of Women in History and Myth
The new men's movement is just the latest example men's fears of women.
The new men’s movement is just the latest example men’s fears of women.
Why Men Get Uncomfortable When Women Get Emotional
If their partner is unhappy, men believe they have failed in some critically important way.
If their partner is unhappy, men believe they have failed in some critically important way.
Why Men are Afraid of Being Controlled by Women
It's because of their underlying fears of being abandoned.
It’s because of their underlying fears of being abandoned.
Why Are Men So Difficult To Buy Gifts For?
Perhaps because men are given more social permission to buy what they want for themselves, so if there is something they want they have probably already bought it for themselves.
Perhaps because men are given more social permission to buy what they want for themselves, so if there is something they want they have probably already bought it for themselves.
The High Cost of Men’s Loneliness
"Close relationships with other people have more of an impact on our physical health and longevity than even our genes."
“Close relationships with other people have more of an impact on our physical health and longevity than even our genes.”
The Value of an Old-Fashioned Marriage
Enhance communication in your relationship. Try dinner and conversation instead of dinner with smartphones.
Enhance communication in your relationship. Try dinner and conversation instead of dinner with smartphones.
Who Gets Up in the Middle of the Night in Your House?
On power struggles between men and women about anxiety.
On power struggles between men and women about anxiety.
Men’s Fears of Women
Most women have no idea that men are also frightened of them, and we men do everything we can to keep it that way.
Most women have no idea that men are also frightened of them, and we men do everything we can to keep it that way.
Stop Apologizing
If you want to improve your relationships.
If you want to improve your relationships.
Men: Feed Your Relationship Every Day
Reassurance is the glue that holds relationships together.
Reassurance is the glue that holds relationships together.