Wrestling With Love: How Men Struggle With Intimacy With Women, Children, Parents and Each Other

By Samuel Osherson, Ph.D.

In recent years, men have been attacked for being emotionally remote, indifferent to relationships and afraid of intimacy. Not surprisingly, many men feel bombarded by the demand to be more expressive, "to show their feelings more" - a vague proposition that's difficult to carry out. But as Dr. Sam Osherson explains in this groundbreaking book, if we pay attention only to men's apparent wish to avoid intimate relationships, then we fail to perceive their deep need to connect and their hidden but very real attempts at intimacy.

In Wrestling with Love, psychologist Sam Osherson, author of the highly acclaimed Finding Our Fathers, reveals how men in our culture struggle to achieve intimacy in their relationships, even as strong messages about masculinity demand that they hide their desire for attachments. Osherson begins by offering a startling observation, based on his extensive experience with men: the desire to connect and the impulse to shun intimacy often arise at the same time. Osherson looks at how this ambivalence undercuts men at every stage of their lives, from boyhood through grandfatherhood, and offers concrete, workable advice for how men can free themselves from these conflicts.

Written with warmth and clarity, profound sympathy and welcome humor, Wrestling With Love touches on the most important issues in the lives of men today.

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