{"id":30814,"date":"2011-03-11T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30814"},"modified":"2011-03-11T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:37:07","slug":"why-do-guys-hold-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30814","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Guys Hold Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Dennis Prager&#8217;s radio show today, Dennis said: &#8220;I define a close friend as someone to whom you open up. Someone to whom you can say anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever you hold back is a gulf. The only reason that people do not say everything is fear that saying it will alienate that person. There&#8217;s a lack of trust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What stops you from having such a friend?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A caller named Richard said: &#8220;From a male point of view, holding back a bit keeps a person from being vulnerable. When they do open up, they feel like they are showing their cards on the poker table. That&#8217;s why guys hold back.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you were to open up to a friend on politics and there was a doubt that that could get out and it could hurt your business&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s innately in our male genes to be defensive and protective and to keep ourselves well armed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis: &#8220;I don&#8217;t identify vulnerable with weak.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dennis Prager&#8217;s radio show today, Dennis said: &#8220;I define a close friend as someone to whom you open up. Someone to whom you can say anything. &#8220;Whatever you hold back is a gulf. The only reason that people do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=30814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5769],"tags":[29761,25738,7980,25737,1453],"class_list":["post-30814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-happiness","tag-dennis-prager","tag-lack-of-trust","tag-point-of-view","tag-poker-table","tag-radio-show"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30818,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30814\/revisions\/30818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}