You repress your feelings and wonder why you’re lonely. You don’t realize how much they impact your life until you know how to recognize them, I myself went through that too. It wasn’t until I learned more about my emotions that I truly felt happy, wanted. Repressing feelings doesn’t work, not in a social setting, because you repress all your emotions, even the positive ones.

I’m very aware of the strawman, you specifically asked for an answer. Those are real issues, but you asked how a therapist could help.

E.g., immigrants that naturalize have to put a *lot* of effort into naturalization; as a result, they’re usually much more personally invested in their civic life, on average, than typical citizens.

Civic Life: The public life of the citizen concerned with the affairs of the community and nation.

Person above me is talking about community building as well.

The second half of your comment seems disconnected from the first? We are specifically talking about mandatory military service for community building.

A good job and a PhD require already having money too. This is why beautiful people on OF keep winning, funding their PhDs

By CPV, did you mean most populous.

And that justifies anything?

Mandatory military service teaches you how kill. Why not build communities by having 1 year social working instead, certainly that teaches you more about your community.

A quick search says you’re 55-64. I bet you can get old divorcees at that age too.

Explain to me in actual words what a therapist is going to accomplish.

Lots of men aren’t taught emotional intelligence and therapy is helpful for better identifying your emotions so your choices can actually have impactbon them.

Someone’s never been to therapy!

At my age the only people left are either young divorcees, people with small children or people that are like me - single for a good reason.

How old are you?

Iirc we can use emoji now, so Sys🎶 is a valid option.

Their internal polling indicated 100% of people drink pen ink ¯\(ツ)/¯