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"Sometimes I say 'Dad is sad' and go cry in my room": these men who cry, a new era

2022-09-17T03:49:14.717Z


What if crying was a strength? Pledge of virility among the Romans before evoking feminine sensibility, the tear comes back to the heart of the debate. By overturning stereotypes, advocates of positive masculinity are opening the floodgates and liberating men.


It pours a droplet facing a sunset.

Hiccup in front of the comedy

Happiness Therapy.

Sobbing with joy with his friends at a party… Francis-William Rhéaume says it with panache: "I'm a big whiner!"

At 35, this actor based in Quebec assumes this reflex that he has channeled for a long time.

It was in kindergarten that he learned to dry up his sensitivity: “We don't cry for nothing!” his teacher lectured him.

"That day I was in tears thinking of a nightmare in which my mother was dying," he said.

I started to keep my pain inside or to cry in secret.

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It took two shocks to reconcile this thirty-year-old with his tears.

“The birth of my daughter upset me: in the maternity ward, I only cried, he confides.

When I separated from my girlfriend, I went to therapy that taught me to feel and name my emotions.

My relationship to tears has changed.

I sometimes say to my daughter: “Dad is…

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