I Love You - Leave Me Alone
Most men aren’t confused about whether they want love. The confusion hits when love asks for access to the tender places, the places where rejection, shame, and fear live. We start there, with the sentence a lot of men quietly build their lives around: “I love you. Now leave me alone.” Not as a joke, but as a real map of modern masculinity, intimacy, and self protection. We talk about how many of us learned an old relationship contract by watching our parents and our communities: provide, pr...