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ManTalks Podcast

Men's Work Session - Why Men Push Love Away

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with my guest to explore the pain that shaped his relationships, especially the deep wound left by his father. Together, we uncover how childhood neglect and emotional distance can carry into adulthood, shaping how men love, trust, and show up. You’ll hear the raw, unfiltered process of reconnection, forgiveness, and reclaiming the parts of ourselves we’ve hidden for too long.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

00:00 - The struggle to connect in relationships

03:00 - Unpacking the father wound

06:00 - Facing hidden grief and sadness

10:00 - Speaking truth to his father

17:00 - Releasing anger and old pain

21:00 - Becoming the father he needed

29:00 - What he hides in love

33:00 - Healing the relationship with his dad

35:00 - Embracing the inner child

41:00 - Learning to express and reconnect

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0:00.0

All right, my friend, welcome to the Mantock Show, and this is one of those men's work sessions.

0:14.7

So we'll be diving in with you.

0:17.4

Tell me a little bit about why you signed up, what you're here to work on, um,

0:22.9

what you're struggling with or want to address.

0:25.4

Yeah.

0:26.0

Yeah, I signed up, um, after, uh, got divorced several years back and always had had some

0:35.9

relationship issues, maybe during the marriage, obviously we got

0:40.6

divorced, but after the marriage, it became even more apparent.

0:44.9

It was just hard to have the relationships that I wanted and really feel, like, comfortable

0:53.3

with them and like, like like I don't know what I would think

0:58.5

was other 40 year old men you know that I think they have probably healthy relationships

1:02.8

and look at my own and they're all like crumbling all around me and it's just kind of like

1:07.2

what the hell's wrong with me so yeah I join, I joined, you know, worked with some other coaches, but also joined the men's group

1:15.5

just because the more I did this work, the more I started just hearing other guys having

1:20.4

the same sorts of issues and was really interesting as I joined the group that the amount of guys going through similar stuff

1:30.0

where can almost copy and paste their answers to questions and just found it almost

1:34.7

I guess helpful just to their guys going through similar sorts of issues in life

1:39.1

around the same age and probably the same sort of demographic as me.

1:50.9

You'd mentioned before we jumped on that there was another man's story that hit home with you.

1:56.3

Can you just say a little bit about the similarities and what resonated with you about his story?

1:58.9

Yeah, yeah.

2:00.7

It was listening to your podcast. I just you talking to to another man and um asking

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