There's a lot of talk around here about the topic of "emotionally unavailable" men and i see a lot of women complaining about this. We usually forget to ask, why? Some just immediately assume that this must be some flaw in manliness or a manifestation of "toxic masculinity" even. "It's just stoicism"...

The answer in most cases is rather simple though. If he doesn't open up to someone is because either he does not trust that person enough to do so, or he got butt hurt repeatedly before, when he did open up and been treated as a doormat. Beleive it or not, there are indeed quite a few predatory women out there who do shamelessly take advantage of men who are obviously in love with them.

The other reason may be simply that men in general have a different love language then women in general. If for instance, you want him to overtly tell you on the daily, how much he can't live without you, the reason why it may not be happening is because men generally do stuff, not talk about stuff. In fact you should be really alert if a guy tells you how much he loves you, 24/7 while doing nothing significant to follow up.. Chances are, you are being "lovebombed", and you might want to RUN.