Posts Tagged ‘communicating about feelings’

When Your Man Pulls Away

Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Cherie

If there was one thing I wish I could change about dating it would be that men and women could be on the exact same wavelength with emotions. Like, either you are interested in someone, or you are not. But in the real world, there are different degrees of “like” and “interest.” This is especially true when a woman likes a guy and wants to date, and the guy seems interested, and then… he pulls away.

Man pulling at shirt collar

It’s confusing, because as women we are people pleasers. We want to make people happy, including our man. So when a man pulls away we tend to do more… we call more, email more, text more…. we smother him. Which, in turn, makes him pull away more.

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