So sorry :( it's frighteningly normalized for men to have extremely serious issues with emotional attachment and sexuality which it is also normalized for women to just be expected to put up with. My last male ex was extremely emotionally neglectful and also a weed addict due to PTSD. He acted like it was a burden to be in a relationship and that I was asking for too much to see him a few times per week. I've come to the conclusion that men do not see women as human, period. We're either masturbation sleeves or substitute mothers or just a stand in while this fantasy perfect woman that they think they deserve apparently hasn't arrived yet. My ex is far from a sociopath he's actually quite sensitive but he completely took my presence for granted and rarely made any effort to express love. When he was drunk a few times he told me he loved me but that he's too emotionally stopped up to express it.

I came close to leaving him several times because of how cold and unexpressive he was. I told him it's clear he doesn't love me and he said that he does and hes hurt that I don't know it. I had sex with that man three times a week for three years and never strayed and he acted like it was nothing. I think the MGTOW sub is fucking hilarious because those guys are constantly whining about how women complain that men emotionally neglect them but they do, all the time. Men are so extremely stunted at expressing emotion and using relationship building skills that they literally don't even sense the gap between their skills and womens and think that women are making up a need for connection just to be hysterical.