[perlgod]

I wouldn’t take this as a representative sample of all men.

In my experience, sharing feelings makes me feel worse and substantially reduces my appeal to others. I prefer to just deal with my problems logically and avoid such navel gazing.

[adamsea]

sharing feelings === navel gazing ?

[lonelappde]

What is illogical about discussing feelings?

Is it illogical to ask for food if you are hungry?

[sebastianconcpt]

Depending with who you share it and how you share it.

It displays psychologically lack of preparation for hard things in life or even weakness.

So it can easily lower the Sexual Market Value of a man.

[nitwit005]

If he just feels worse, it's certainly illogical to keep doing it.

It's fairly common for people to have adverse reactions to therapy. Not everyone reacts the same to this sort of thing.

[ryanwaggoner]

That's kind of a spurious argument to make without drawing it out a bit. Exercise doesn't feel good (at first) if you're morbidly obese, but that's because you really need it.

Adverse reactions to therapy might mean that therapy isn't for you. But more commonly, I think it probably means that you don't have the right therapist and / or you have some really heavy, painful shit that you need to deal with but don't want to. Otherwise you wouldn't be having "adverse reactions" to simply sitting in a room with another human to talk about your life.

[nitwit005]

Everyone is exactly the same. Everyone feels good about exactly the same things, and bad about exactly the same things.

What I just said is clearly ridiculous.

It should not be a surprise that some people don't feel positive about talking about their lives. If you can't imagine it, I'm afraid you may lack imagination.