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Typographic featured card reading "This one isn't written to your girlfriend" — a Built Different essay on how men can become more emotionally open.

How to Be More Emotionally Open as a Man

Almost every article with this title is secretly written to your girlfriend, about you. This one is written to you. Being emotionally open isn’t dumping every feeling or performing sensitivity on cue — it’s the learnable skill of knowing what you actually feel and letting the right people see it.