What do men get hurt from besides cheating?

Men are human beings. They can be hurt by all the same things that hurt women. Losing a loved one, being lied to, losing their job, falling over, feeling like a failure and so on.

Yes. We can be hurt by the same things. I’m not trying to be rude, but I’m beginning to feel sorry for the op….

The expectation that they must change for the “significant other” the things about themselves that are really what makes them unique.

Is this a serious fucking question? Men get hurt all the time yet society says it’s perfectly ok not to care, that we are supposed to just “suck it up.” We often don’t have good support systems yet we tend to be the support system for everyone else. Men are viewed as necessary but disposable. The worst thing you can do to a guy as a female is be his partner and disrespect him by things like cheating, taking what he does for granted or generally being disrespectfull. There are things that are awesome about being a guy but it’s mostly a lot of work if you are a man and not a boy.

Yes, men are humans and bleed just like anyone else, the only difference is most males are conditioned to hide their emotions and fear them, see them as weak and unmasculine so often anger is the predominant way they feel safe in expressing them.

The same things that women do. Really?

My friend told me men can get very hurt, some even cry, but they mostly just get pissed…

- Your friend doesn’t know what he(?)‘s talking about, and/or is confused. Also “getting pissed” can be something people do when they’re hurt, especially when they think they’re not supposed to show it in other ways.

Humans, (not “men,” not “women,”) often channel emotional pain into anger, especially when they’ve been told by society/those around them that they’re not supposed to have, or show, emotional vulnerability.

It’s a remarkably ill-informed and destructive, yet somehow still persistent, belief in society that men aren’t supposed to be as “senstive” as women. Traditionally, this belief has simultaneously cast a “feminine” show of emotions as hyperbolic or frivolous, and a “masculine” show of emotions as being steely in the face of hardship, or unaffected, or aggressive, etc. Both castings are nonsense. Both castings are harmful. (From my own experience, I’d say we’ve made more progress dismantling the former, and notably less progress dismantling the latter, which is frustrating and unfortunate.)

Men and women just aren’t that different. We’re all, first and foremost, humans—and we all traverse the same pyschological landscape, even as we each (as individuals, not genders) develop our own “maps” to guide us through it.

People are all different, men or women. What one man may get upset about, another one might not. Maybe I’m weird, but I have never been able to get jealous behind a woman. Mostly my past girlfriends have been faithful to me (as far as I know) as has been my wife. That said, if any of them had left me, I just don’t see myself crying in my coffee about that. If they think or know they can do better, break a leg. See ya, glad I ain’t got to be ya. What can I say?

I maybe have a type, because all men I ever dated were more emotional than me. They expected my support and in case I was not into it a very second they pulled my sleeve the things usually turned full scale drama, even theatrical at times.
Besides general things in love, I noticed that men are overly twitchy about the money, irrelevant if mine of theirs, probably because they have more nerve endings on their wallets than on their ‘garden equipment’.

Maybe not saying what is hurting them.