EPISODE · May 27, 2025 · 48 MIN
The Hidden Fear That's Sabotaging Your Relationship - Dr. Avrum Weiss
from The Mature Male · host Wes Lambert
Dr. Avrum Weiss is a licensed psychologist, author, and one of the leading clinical voices on men's emotional lives and the fears that drive male behavior in relationships.Most relationship problems between men and women aren't communication failures. They're fear failures. Men are carrying deep, largely unexamined fears about intimacy, inadequacy, and abandonment — and those fears drive the shutdown, the distancing, and the defensiveness that partners experience as rejection. Dr. Avrum Weiss has spent decades in the consulting room with men, and what he's found is both more honest and more hopeful than the usual conversation about male emotional unavailability.Expect to learn what the deepest fears men carry in relationships actually are and why they stay hidden, how fear of inadequacy drives the most common male relationship behaviors, why men distance and shut down and what they're protecting themselves from, the difference between what men show in relationships versus what they actually feel, how a partner's criticism often confirms a man's worst fears about himself, what it looks like when a man begins to face these fears rather than manage them, how couples can create enough safety for men to stop hiding and much more...Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833
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Dr. Avrum Weiss is a licensed psychologist, author, and one of the leading clinical voices on men's emotional lives and the fears that drive male behavior in relationships.Most relationship problems between men and women aren't communication failures. They're fear failures. Men are carrying deep, largely unexamined fears about intimacy, inadequacy, and abandonment — and those fears drive the shutdown, the distancing, and the defensiveness that partners experience as rejection. Dr. Avrum Weiss has spent decades in the consulting room with men, and what he's found is both more honest and more hopeful than the usual conversation about male emotional unavailability.Expect to learn what the deepest fears men carry in relationships actually are and why they stay hidden, how fear of inadequacy drives the most common male relationship behaviors, why men distance and shut down and what they're protecting themselves from, the difference between what men show in relationships versus what they actually feel, how a partner's criticism often confirms a man's worst fears about himself, what it looks like when a man begins to face these fears rather than manage them, how couples can create enough safety for men to stop hiding and much more...Get in touch in the comments below or head to...Website: www.weslambert.meEmail: [email protected]: https://substack.com/@weslambertSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Yv1ciX90C3zdPxD67kjyY?si=7591bc0f32da4f23Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mature-male/id1805978833
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