08/17/2025
Why do men suffer from insecurity so frequently on average: perhaps because the ideals of masculinity are so unforgiving and difficult to live up to, arguably more difficult than that of the feminine archetype. Men do the craziest things trying to prove their masculinity to themselves. In the context of Couples work, this comes up as defensiveness. Perhaps in popular parlance it might be referred to as dealing with a man's ego. Whatever one calls it, it is often what gets in the way of a couple's deeper intimacy and connection: a male partners refusal to acknowledge, as Jung might say, "the roots within him that reach down to hell," his shadow.
