Perhaps the cure to male loneliness is men stepping up for men. As a former lost boy myself, I certainly would have appreciated it.

Now I mentor the shit out of juniors in my professional life.

  • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    It’s because a good con man focuses on saying what people want to hear whenever possible. Makes them easy to manipulate.

    Someone who actually wants to help you will tell you things that are hard to hear. Inconvenient truths. Sometimes we are not ready to hear them or accept them, and that’s where the struggle is. It’s the same as the concept of tough love in parenting (which for the record does not mean beating your children).