[Beagle]

Very well put, MikeThePirate. Emotions are important, but there is a time you have to man up, put your game face on, and act as if they didn't exist. Can you imagine getting on an airplane with the pilot crying "I just can't do this" because of a fight with his girlfriend? Sometimes we just have to act in spite of our emotions.

Men are programmed to be action oriented. That was necessary to keep us alive in the cave-man days. That's why women should have girlfriends. For example, if a woman tells us she's hungry, we're not going to ask her how she feels about it. Our mind immediately turns to how to kill something and drag it back to the cave. If you live in a world where the only food is woolly mammoth then the men can't spend a lot of time fretting about how they feel. That's why men and women are designed to be complementary, not interchangeable.

Often when women criticize men for not being emotionally available, actually they're just doing what a man is built to do. A man can't take the place of girlfriends for a woman. Every woman needs girlfriends and every man needs guy friends.