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How Men Became "Emotional Gold Diggers" — Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden

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Women are increasingly playing the role of best friend, lover, and on-call therapist to their male partners.

How Men Became "Emotional Gold Diggers" — Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden Skip to Content Fashion Beauty Shopping Celebrity Culture Weddings More 12 min read Kylie-Anne Kelly can’t remember the exact moment she became her boyfriend’s one and only, his what would I do without you , but she does remember neglecting her own needs to the point of hospitalization. “I talked him through his aspirations, validated his opinions, and supported his career. I had to be his emotional guru because he was too afraid to admit he had any emotions at all,” recalls the 24-year-old English teacher,

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