Carl Jung told us that the people who love you will love you because you're you.
But we we only show the parts of ourselves that are useful or productive because that’s how we think we’ll get love and respect.
You don’t have to anymore.
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What Does It Actually Mean to Be a Man
In this conversation with Trey Tucker (@TTuck10) we discuss:
- Talk therapy was built for one type of person and it was not most men
- Andrew Tate is a marketing genius selling men a broken promise
- Trey's top five horror movies are not movies at all
- Why so many men physically show love but can never say the words
- What it actually means to be a man according to a therapist who works with them every day
Timestamps:
01:52 Meet Trey
02:45 Why therapy was never actually built for most men
08:41 The manosphere and red pill movement explained
12:36 What Andrew Tate actually gets right and where it falls apart
16:22 Trey's top five horror movies — the real things that haunt men, including why chasing money and status leaves you emptier than when you started
18:20 Gentle parenting vs hardcore discipline and why both fail
23:30 What it actually takes to become a parent
26:04 The letter Trey's dad got back with his spelling mistakes corrected in red pen
29:52 People who make men feel bad for being men
33:19 Why so many men cannot say I love you
37:52 What it actually means to be a man
39:23 Trey's book Tough Enough
43:10 The gambling epidemic no one wants to talk about because of ad money
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Why is it so hard to say "I love you" back to someone?
"Love is the most core deepest part of us. If I have to take off my armor and expose that, then you might hurt me. So I stay what I think of as strong."
That armor was never strength. It was fear wearing strength's clothes. 👇
h/t @TTuck10
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Therapist @TTuck10 shares, “One of the things I tell my clients is: I want you to suffer.
And they’ll look at me like, ‘What?’ I’m like, yeah—I want you to suffer. I want you to struggle. I am not here to give you relief. I’m here to help you get stronger so that, when you suffer, you can look back and realize, ‘Hey, look what I did.’ And for the believers, ‘Look what God helped me get through.’
I look at King David, and when you read the Psalms, he’s saying things like, ‘God, thank you for the afflictions of my youth.’ And he’s looking back at God: ‘You trained my hands and my fingers for war.’ When he was a boy in the fields protecting the flock, he was fighting off animals and going through all kinds of things. He had no idea what was going to come later in life. And he realized all that training in the field helped him win battles.
And then, when he won those battles, he came back bloodied, beaten up, sweating. It was awful—and he won—but he always said, ‘God gave me the victory.’
And it was also his physical exertion and the training that led up to those moments. So I want people to go through enough to realize, ‘Yeah, I’ve got the strength. I’ve got what it takes. And therefore, I’m going to use it for something bigger than me.’”



