In this video, The School of Life suggests that boys can be unkind to girls they like, in part to reduce the pain of possible rejection. You might also try these positive affirmations for men if you’d like to feel more confident expressing yourself.
The video’s description begins: “It can be very hard to keep admitting to yourself and the world that you like someone – when it seems they may not like you.” It then points to further reading, quoted below.
“An enormous amount of trouble in the world – especially at work and in relationships – is caused by a peculiar phenomenon of our minds: a tendency to grow, as we put it, out of touch with our feelings. When we first meet this idea, it sounds strange, and even a bit insulting. How could we not know what we are feeling? We look from the outside like unified beings: we carry one name and sit in a compact physical container. The distances between different parts of us aren’t so great. How then could we be so multiple as to have secrets from ourselves?…”
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This video is by The School of Life. You can read more on this and other topics in its articles, which now include its former blog TheBookofLife.org, at The School of Life articles.
