Attention Men: Vulnerability Is a Key to Inner Peace and Emotional Freedom

The Pact of Silence

Men conspire in a pact of silence whose goal is to suppress their emotional truth.

It’s an unwritten yet widely understood, tacit agreement.

Share just enough of your emotional self to maintain romantic, family, personal, and professional relationships.

Avoid vulnerability.

Never cross the line.

Never overshare; keep it bottled up.

Live on the surface; never dive below.

Our fathers (many born during the Great Depression and World War II) learned from their fathers (who experienced the Great Depression and World War II as adults), for the most part, led emotionally quiet lives.

And they expected us to do the same.

Men keep how they’re genuinely feeling shoved down in the recesses of their bodies.

We do this to the detriment of our deepest desires.

Man yearns for purpose, meaning, fulfillment, peace, and freedom.

This pact of silence is the antithesis of what we most desire; it’s a prison cell of our own design.