Men in here: what do you do when your mothers or wives belittle you? I've dealt with this throughout my life and never developed any good solution other than ignoring, pushing feelings down, and taking the rage out on my self later. Part of the problem is that if I even make it known how their treatment strikes me, they start in on crying about how terrible my kind (men) are, and how I must be trying to manipulate them (to what end is never clear). It's gotten to the point where I pretty much avoid women entirely aside from familial obligations to mom, sisters, step-mom. But those once-every-few-weeks phone calls cause so much emotional damage that I find myself more and more needing to restrict contact. Thanks in advance for your perspectives.