If you love someone, you should tell them. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell your partners. Tell your pets. Tell everyone! It doesn’t especially matter how you tell them—whether it’s out loud and face-to-face, in a text message, at the end of an email, or shouted into the endless scroll of a social media feed. The important part is that you say it, and you mean it. This is especially important if you're a man, or man-adjacent. There are endless think pieces about the so-called Male Loneliness Epidemic , about how men don’t have close friendships or community anymore. Ironically, a lot of the media aimed at men, especially on those darker corners of the internet, frames vulnerability as weakness and treats love like it's something shameful and emasculating. So of course men are lonely. They’re being taught that feeling love, let alone expressing love makes them less of a man. It doesn’t, though. Obviously. Love is a fundamental human experience. If anything, it makes yo...