Why Men Pull Away When You Need Them the Most

What’s more scary than being with a man who suddenly disappears when you are hurting badly over something?

This lady named Sarah left this question on the blog:

“Renee, I love your articles they always make so much sense! I have a problem with my boyfriend. Ive known him for three years, and he is a very rough around the edges, ‘tough love’ kind of guy. He seems to be caring and loving and calling a lot mostly when things are good.

But as soon as I am going through a very difficult time and need him the most to be my rock, he pulls away and disappears? WTF? He knows this upsets me because I’ve expressed it, but there’s always some excuse.

Right now I am going through a very difficult time because something happened with a family member, and right on cue, he pulls away. For the last 3-4 days he hasn’t called to check up or see how I am doing, He just texts me one word “morning”, and that’s it.

This time I am not even going to ask him why. I am over feeling this way, I want a man who is emotionally mature to be there for his woman, especially when he claims he loves her soooooooooooooo much, like he says he does.

Your articles are true for the most part, and we need to have compassion for men, but sometimes they really are just selfish douchebags…and we need to be strong enough and trust our intuition when we know something really isn’t right, and stop making excuses for them…especially if you’ve noticed a pattern.”

Why Men Pull Away when you Need them

An Answer

Hi Sarah…

Thanks for your wonderful comment.

I know that feeling when your stomach churns and sinks inside when you feel the most vulnerable, and the man who claims to love you is just not there.

I’ve been there many times in my past relationship before I got married.

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There’s two parts to this problem you find yourself facing.

  • 1: You feel you shouldn’t stay with him because you’ve noticed a pattern – a pattern of perceived abandonment.
  • 2: The fact that he pulls away when you need him, which I have a very good explanation for, but also another message.

I am not a man. However, there’s a small message I have for you, and it’s a message of hope and a possible reason behind your man pulling away.

This Is What Men Do During A Personal Crisis

A lot of men feel the pull to isolate themselves during a crisis in their own life.

I know you’ve noticed this on some level, behind your fear about this situation.

This tendency that masculine men have is not like women, who have a tendency to want to group together with a trusted female friend or several family members or friends.

Women gather together with others during a crisis, to connect deeper in order to get through tough times.

Many women (unless they are perhaps more masculine in their hormonal make up), THRIVE on this connection to get through something painful.

This actually helps them. Very much. We tend to enjoy and feel a drive to seek out social support during tough times. Whether we actually do reach out for the support or not, we have an overall tendency to do that.

Of course, just because we have a tendency to do this, doesn’t mean that we always do this, sometimes we want to isolate ourselves.

But if we tend to isolate ourselves, usually this is because of some sort of fear – I’ve seen many women actually take this isolation approach also, but it is to avoid letting people judge you in bad times.

Read: 12 Reasons Why Some People Will Always Be Distant From YOU.

Again, I am not a man. But I have a vague idea that for a man, this kind of connection that females thrive on during relational crises or problems, actually takes value from him in his attempt to get through the tough times.

In other words, feeling empty of connection with others is a helpful thing for males. That’s the way their masculinity is served.

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It’s an approach that is not so healing for females. Though it seems to be more common these days to pull away from people, because we live in a world where so many of us have got the idea that in order to be loved we have to ‘be someone’ in this world.

And so we develop many patterns that separate us from others, even being women!

So, while females may not go to other people for connection, support and a chin wag during tough relationship issues with family because of FEAR – men don’t go to others in relationship crisis simply because it doesn’t serve their masculinity.

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But WHY can’t he be there for YOU?

Do you wonder why though, that he can’t still be there for you even if he wouldn’t want extra communication and relational support from you during a familial crisis?

Here’s the basic answer….

We human beings in general, not just men alone, do a thing called ‘projected empathy’.

Projected empathy is a habit we all make when we are too far up our own butts. It is the habit of assuming that you ‘get’ the other person and you ‘get’ what they are feeling.

Men and women do it a lot to each other, with deathly consequences – consequences like unnecessary break ups and loss of respect for each other.

This tends to lead us humans to give what we think or assume is value to that other person, based on our own subjective unconfirmed idea of what the other person is going through.

Your man appears to possibly be doing this.

He may not be. But he also may be.

But because he is a rough around the edges male, there is a very high likelihood that he is doing this.

I remember once my husband (whom loves his father very much) was concerned about his father’s well-being and hadn’t heard from him for days.

Right on cue, he went silent for many hours, and I was like ‘WTF!’, exactly like you. It hurt, but I was able to get through by attempting to just BE with his pain, his emptiness.

Sometimes, men do the weirdest things. They go silent when you’re the most in pain. It’s quite the conundrum.

If you want to understand more about men, read this article on 5 Things Every Woman Ought To Know About Men.

And this article on 5 Insights On Men That Will Ease Your Worries.

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But Life is no Straight Line

Now, life is no straight line…

Of course, I believe there are many women who go silent in crisis. Just like there are many men who do. But I am giving you my answer based on my own observations and what I believe I have learned of the male species.

It just appears to be the case that females have a TENDENCY to want MORE connection, talk and communion during a family crisis or work problem, or an other relational upset, whereas men do a Houdini or it seems like the cat got their tongue.

At the end of the day though, your choice to stay with him or not would be only yours.

If it turns out that you believe you wouldn’t be breaking up with him for the sole reason of running away from your fears (because let’s face it, your fears are not a good reason to break up with him), then you can comfortably break up with him and open yourself to another man.

If you identify his ‘pattern’, and yet, you know inside, that you would be leaving him or threatening him to leave him out of your own tense fear, anger and frustration, then you could be throwing away a beautiful future with a strong, capable man who has good intent with you.

It’s up to you. Most people’s relationships don’t work out, and that’s because we make too many decisions from fear, constantly. I talk more about this in my article Is it Wise to Pick a Man Who Loves You More than You Love Him?

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He could also feel afraid of the way you are Expressing your Need for Him to be there

Sometimes, men just don’t feel compelled to be there.

I know you’ve expressed to him your need for him, but as women of this day and age, we usually do this in a way that repels men, without even meaning to.

In your case, he might pull away on cue because he doesn’t feel like a man with the way you’re asking for him to be there, so what’s the point in being there?

Men usually only commit deeper when they feel more like a man for doing so – otherwise, the relationship only takes value from them.

So the key is to understand how to ask a man indirectly to be there for you in a way that inspires him to feel more like a man. David and I help you to do that in the members’ Area of our course Understanding Men.

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How much do you REALLY care about each other?

Sometimes men are completely and utterly all about themselves and they simply only want you around for convenience, company, and the random excitement and fun.

But that doesn’t mean you’ve been taken advantage of, it just means you were hoping for more commitment from the wrong man for you.

Or it means that you were too scared to do more to attract him deeper into a relationship with you.

(If you’re interested in learning how to inspire a man to connect deeper with you and to be there for you, here is How To Be Vulnerable With A Man Without Being Needy.)

And regardless of how you see it, what you have to remember is that even though he seems like he’s the asshole when just wanting to take value from you, you also had some pattern that encouraged that behaviour from him!

(In relationships, we always attract our reciprocal).

In the end, to truly care about each other takes time, and it takes both of you developing more and more courage and understanding through your conflicts together (this current problem being one of those important milestone conflicts!).

It is not easy being in a man/woman relationship. They aren’t fair, and they never will be fair.

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If you like the idea of fair, then you can contemplate the idea of having an intimate relationship with another woman.

Some people do this because it’s easier to relate to another female than it is to relate to a male..it’s less scary, perhaps!

So, if you really love this man and you really have to courage to go deeper and care just a little bit beyond your own edge, do so.

You won’t lose. Because the more open you are to pain and uncertainty, the more understanding you will gain.

You may feel silly doing this, but you’ll only become more for your next man, and the next man will go deeper with you because you’ve developed that depth through mastering a thing called Emotional Courage.

I hope that helped!

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