Everyone knows that relationships take work and love isn’t always easy.
So why does the rising trend of “self-love” make the idea of loving yourself out to be all fun and games? The answer may be in the over-emphasis of self-love for women as a means of female empowerment.
But with shifting gender roles in our society, we also need to encourage men to embrace self-love practices. But self-love requires vulnerability, and humility, and that isn’t what men are conditioned to thing they should be.
This video talks about why this might be harder for men and what we can do to make it a little more accessible.
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Self-love – and its prerequisite, self-care – are not just hard for men. According to how we’re trained as men, they are actually wrong. It goes beyond our craving for logic and sense. It violates what we are taught about manhood, starting with rule number one, “if it hurts, you’re doing it right.”