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The Irritable Male Syndrome: Same problem,
different View
For the Woman
You may feel you are losing the person you most
love and care about. Your sex life is probably not
good. There is often tension in your love-making
and even when there is passion and excitement,
something is missing. What you miss even more than
the enjoyment and comfort of lovemaking is the
feeling of safety and intimacy you once felt. The
gentle touches and warm smiles are distant
memories. Where he used to feel warm and cuddly, he
now seems cold and prickly. You may feel you are on
an emotional roller-coaster, whipped up and down
and side to side. There are times you’d just
like to get out and walk away, but you remember how
things used to be and long for what you hope can
still be in the future. You probably feel hurt and
you likely feel lonely. You long to get the man
back who you loved and used to know.
For The Man:
If you’re a man you may be aware that life
is more stressful than it should be. At times you
may feel that the hassles of life are more than you
can take. You think you should be able to handle
things, but you sometimes think how nice it would
be to get away from it all. You can’t
understand why all your efforts to make things
better seem to have the opposite effect.
You’re tired of feeling that nothing you do is
right.
It seems that the people you most rely on are no
longer on your side. People at work seem more
adversarial than supportive. Old friends may have
dropped away or are no longer as close. Your
children treat you differently and you may have
lost connection and contact. Your wife seems to
withdraw from you sexually. Where she used to feel
warm and cuddly, she now seems cold and prickly.
She seems to nitpick at the smallest thing you do
or forget to do. It’s increasingly difficult
to relax around her. You feel guarded and
protective, but also lonely and misunderstood. You
too long to have the kind of relationship where you
can relax and enjoy the ease of intimacy you seem
to have lost.
Does this sound familiar? If it does, drop me a
note. I’d like to hear about your
experiences.
©2007 Jed
Diamond
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Wealth can't buy health, but health can buy
wealth. - Henry David Thoreau
Jed Diamond
is the internationally best-selling author of seven
books including Male
Menopause, now
translated into 17 foreign languages and his
latest book, The
Irritable Male Syndrome: Managing. The 4 Key Causes
of Depression and
Aggression. For over
38 years he has been a leader in the field of men's
health. He is a member of the International
Scientific Board of the World Congress on
Men’s Health and has been on the Board of
Advisors of the Men’s Health Network since its
founding in 1992. His work has been featured in
major newspapers throughout the United States
including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall
Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and USA
Today. He has been featured on more than 1,000
radio and T.V. programs including The View with
Barbara Walters, Good Morning America, Inside
Edition, CBS, NBC, and Fox News, To Tell the Truth,
Extra, Leeza, Geraldo, and Joan Rivers. He also did
a nationally televised special on Male Menopause
for PBS. He looks forward to your feedback.
E-Mail.
You can visit his website at www.menalive.com
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