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The Truth About Dating is Men Need To Do More

The Dating Truth
9 min readJan 29, 2020

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For centuries men have gotten away with doing what was best for their gender ignoring the needs of women. When it comes to dating men need to do more. This isn’t a conversation about investing money, or being more aggressive to fit a “role”, but a call to action for men to show up emotionally for women.

Women have surpassed the days where they can take on all of the emotional labor in dating. As generations mature men and women are moving towards various types of equality and sharing the emotional burden of dating is becoming imperative.

All relationships impact our emotional, and psychological states and wellbeing yet women have been the sole guardians of feelings for centuries. The responsibility of expressing feelings, protecting feelings, and monitoring feelings have been the assumed job of women. This begs the question; what then are men responsible for?

A recent tweet by dating coach, Amy Waterman that said: It’s one of the great mysteries of the dating scene: Why do women feel responsible for making men feel like men…

While men don’t feel much responsibility for a woman’s emotional state at all?

When you Google the search terms, ‘How To Make A Man Feel Like A Man’, millions of results populate. The Dating Truth has published several articles on the topic —…

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I’m Fauna Solomon the founder of The Dating Truth a digital resource for dating advice. We offer the most diverse advice on modern dating available.

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