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>>21807225
Some women definitely do have empathy/support to provide. I'm only talking about the dynamic of sons-mothers with absent fathers. Personally, I know a lot of guys in this situation (including myself) and all of them struggled with it. Most of them had a "rough period" where they got into drugs and began hanging around the wrong kind of people. The others became huge NEETs/failures.

My mother doesn't have a nurturing bone in her body. Whenever she sees me struggling, she just goes "You really need to pick yourself up," as if I don't know that. She gives financial support but that's all -- emotional support doesn't exist. For sons who lose their fathers, they need something to latch onto, and if mothers don't provide this they spiral out of control. I'm not saying losing your father is hopeless for guys. I'm just saying it's basically being a man on hard mode. If you fail, no one will really care. But if you succeed, you can be happy knowing you won all that yourself.