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Originally Posted by purple_fins
Yes, I've never read either where there is a difference between gender needs in early childhood. and yes, without all that people can and often do grow up with stunted social skills.(raises hand  ) I'm so sorry you and your brothers didn't receive the care that you so needed.  I have an alcoholic brother and two sisters that are/were alcoholics -- one of which has passed due to her self neglect. I think it affects both genders profoundly..... as to the situation of so much talk of daughters with such mothers-- I think maybe it occurs so much as females share feelings more than males(society encouraged/discouraged) and also females are regarded as the gender that generally talks more... though I know I wouldn't qualify in that area. I think men are just as affected-- in different ways perhaps but still just as "bruised". Men don't seem to be as vocal about it all.... and so then... in turn... the support is hard to come by.
I will support you any time you need a shoulder  I wish men would talk more about these things-- that way more women would understand what a boy child REALLY needs (get so upset when I see a mom ignoring an injured little boy but coddling an injured girl... argh!!!!) let me tell you-- that never happened in my childhood home-- the mother was callous to most of us- no matter gender. It was more of the personality type that she endeared-- and Nope-- I didnt' have that magic makeup. 
best to you in your quest for inner peace.  fins
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No question, fins, you are right. I think perhaps that men find it harder to conceptualize their emotional difficulties. In general, men are less verbal than women, not just externally but internally as well. I think that what you might call "emotional reasoning" is more difficult for men. I'm talking about the never-ending internal monolog that continually rehashes pain and bad feelings, trying to come up with solutions or at least explanations that will permit a person to turn his/her attention to other things. There's more of that in women than in men, I think. And if you're really out to lunch, a state in which I've spent most of my life, you just can't figure anything out until a brilliant T, like I now have, starts to point things out like a guide on a tour bus. Take care!
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